| 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 |
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