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relieved

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Main Entry: relieve
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: make less painful; let up on

Synonyms:

abate, allay, alleviate, appease, assuage, break, brighten, calm, comfort, console, cure, decrease, diminish, divert, dull, ease, free, interrupt, lighten, mitigate, moderate, mollify, palliate, qualify, quiet, relax, salve, slacken, soften, solace, soothe, subdue, take load off one's chest, take load off one's mind, temper, vary

Antonyms:

harm, hurt, injure, pain
Main Entry: relieve
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: help; give assistance

Synonyms:

aid, assist, bring aid, give a break, give a hand, give a rest, spell, stand in for, substitute for, succor, support, sustain, take over from, take the place of

Antonyms:

burden, discourage, hurt, trouble, upset, worry
Main Entry: relieve
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: remove blame, responsibility

Synonyms:

absolve, deliver, discharge, disembarrass, disencumber, dismiss, dispense, excuse, exempt, force to resign, free, let off, privilege, pull, release, spare, throw out, unburden, yank*

Antonyms:

accuse, blame, condemn
Main Entry: relieved
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: eased in mind

Synonyms:

allayed, alleviated, appeased, cared, comfortable, comforted, consoled, for, mollified, pacified, placated, reassured, reconciled, relaxed, satisfied, solaced, soothed

Antonyms:

distraught, sad, worried
Main Entry: relieved
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: deprived of something, or freed from it

Synonyms:

discharged, disengaged, dismissed, freed, released, removed, replaced, rescued, separated from
Main Entry: relieved
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: lessened

Synonyms:

abated, allayed, alleviated, anesthetized, assuaged, diminished, eased, lightened, mitigated, palliated, salved, softened, soothed
Main Entry: absolve
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: free from responsibility, duty

Synonyms:

acquit, bleach, blink at, clear, discharge, exculpate, excuse, exempt, exonerate, forgive, free, go easy on, launder, let off easy, let off the hook, let off, let up on, liberate, lifeboat, loose, pardon, release, relieve, sanitize, set free, spare, spring*, vindicate, whitewash, wink at, wipe it off, wipe the slate clean, write off
Notes: one is absolved of blame or responsibility but is acquitted of a charge, usually a crime

Antonyms:

bind, blame, charge, condemn, convict, hold, impeach, incriminate, obligate, punish, sentence
Main Entry: acquit
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: announce removal of blame

Synonyms:

absolve, blink at, clear, deliver, discharge, disculpate, exculpate, excuse, exonerate, free, let go, let off, let off the hook, liberate, release, relieve, vindicate, whitewash, wink at, wipe off

Antonyms:

blame, censure, condemn, convict, damn, denounce, doom, sentence
Main Entry: aid
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: help, support

Synonyms:

abet, alleviate, assist, bail out, befriend, benefact, encourage, favor, go to bat for, go with, lend a hand, lighten, mitigate, open doors for, promote, relieve, serve, stick up for, straighten out, subsidize, sustain

Antonyms:

block, hinder, hurt, impede, injure, obstruct
Main Entry: alternate
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: take turns, change back and forth

Synonyms:

act reciprocally, alter, blow hot and cold, change, come and go, exchange, fill in for, fluctuate, follow, follow in turn, interchange, intersperse, oscillate, relieve, rotate, seesaw, shift, shilly-shally, substitute, sway, vacillate, vary, waver, yo-yo

Antonyms:

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