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releeve

releeve is the obsolete spelling of relieve.

Meaning of relieve

Verb

relieve (third-person singular simple present relieves, present participle relieving, simple past and past participle relieved)

  1. (transitive) To ease (a person, person's thoughts etc.) from mental distress; to stop (someone) feeling anxious or worried, to alleviate the distress of.
    • I was greatly relieved by the jury's verdict.
  2. (transitive) To ease (someone, a part of the body etc.) or give relief from physical pain or discomfort.
    Synonyms:
    liss
  3. (transitive) To alleviate (pain, distress, mental discomfort etc.).
  4. (transitive) To provide comfort or assistance to (someone in need, especially in poverty).
  5. (obsolete) To lift up; to raise again.
  6. (archaic) To raise (someone) out of danger or from (a specified difficulty etc.).

See all 13 meanings of relieve

Forms of releeve

third-person singular presentreleeves
present participlereleeving
past participlereleeved
pastreleeved

Questions about releeve

What is releeve the obsolete spelling of?
Releeve is the obsolete spelling of relieve.

Words near releeve in the dictionary

  1. releasings
  2. releasor
  3. releasors
  4. relebactam
  5. reled
  6. releeve
  7. Releford
  8. relegable
  9. relegalisation
  10. relegalise
  11. relegalised

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Adapted from Wiktionary: releeve (page history and authors); relieve (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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