relieve🔊

To ease (a person, person's thoughts etc.) from mental distress; to stop (someone) feeling anxious or worried, to alleviate the distress of.

To ease (someone, a part of the body etc.) or give relief from physical pain or discomfort. +

To alleviate (pain, distress, mental discomfort etc.).

To provide comfort or assistance to (someone in need, especially in poverty).

(obsolete) To lift up; to raise again.

(now rare) To raise (someone) out of danger or from (a specified difficulty etc.).

(law) To free (someone) from debt or legal obligations; to give legal relief to.

To bring military help to (a besieged town); to lift the siege on.

To release (someone) from or of a difficulty, unwanted task, responsibility etc.

(originally military) To free (someone) from their post, task etc. by taking their place.

(now rare) To make (something) stand out; to make prominent, bring into relief.

(euphemistic) To urinate or defecate.

(euphemistic) To ease one's own desire to orgasm, often through masturbation to orgasm.