Relieve

(verb.) provide physical relief, as from pain; 'This pill will relieve your headaches'.

(verb.) alleviate or remove (pressure or stress) or make less oppressive; 'relieve the pressure and the stress'; 'lighten the burden of caring for her elderly parents'.

(verb.) take by stealing; 'The thief relieved me of $100'.

(verb.) free from a burden, evil, or distress.

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• Her perpetual study was to relieve us from labour and to spread ease and even elegance over our altered mode of life. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• To relieve them, I ordered a renewal of the assault. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• He becomes careful to instruct them, and attentive to assist and relieve them. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• As for Jane Fairfax, she might at least relieve her feelings from any present solicitude on her account. 简·奥斯汀. 爱玛.
• If you are in poverty or affliction I shall be truly glad to relieve you if I can,--I shall indeed. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 雾都孤儿.
• Certainly, I answered-- unless I relieve you of all necessity for trying the experiment in the interval. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• We laid him upon the drawing-room sofa, and having dispatched the sobered Toller to bear the news to his wife, I did what I could to relieve his pain. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯历险记.
• I asked at once that Sigel might be relieved, and some one else put in his place. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• Much relieved when the two hours were at last accomplished, he went away at a quick pace, as a recompense for so much loitering. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 艰难时事.
• We felt immensely relieved. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• With his mind apparently relieved from an overwhelming weight, by having at last got an order for something, the waiter imperceptibly melted away. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• He did so, and I at once relieved him from the command of the 13th army corps and ordered him back to Springfield, Illinois. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• But the enemy relieved me from this necessity. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• So when Mrs. Woodcourt went away, I was sorry to lose her but was relieved too. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• No nurse fit to wait on her being at hand in the neighbourhood, her ladyship the Countess and myself undertook the duty, relieving each other. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• There is nothing like employment, active indispensable employment, for relieving sorrow. 简·奥斯汀. 曼斯菲尔德庄园.
• Relieving him of his trappings, which I flung down beside him, we left the poor fellow to his fate, and pushed on with the one thoat as best we could. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星公主.
• In some cases, by relieving pain, they give the system the rest necessary for overcoming the cause of the pain. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• Sloppy they left behind, relieving his overcharged breast with a paroxysm of mangling. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• The man-servant came hastening to the door, and there he was, relieving Gudrun of her umbrella, and then of her raincoat. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• Then they defeated a great relieving army from Mosul. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• However, I'm glad the thing is cleared up: it relieves one's mind to have things cleared up. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• The pin-setter relieves the boy of the major and most time-consuming part of this work. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• The return of peace, indeed, seldom relieves them from the greater part of the taxes imposed during the war. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• The old lady relieves the high-flown benevolence of her husband with a good deal of spirit. 简·奥斯汀. 曼斯菲尔德庄园.
• This co-operation in no sense relieves the authors of responsibility as to any of the views or statements of their own that the book contains. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• Do let me cry a few minutes; it relieves me. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• My best girl, he had said, relieves me from these phantasies. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.

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