Definition for Relieve:

• To free, wholly or partly, from any burden, trial, evil, distress, or the like; to give ease, comfort, or consolation to; to give aid, help, or succor to; to support, strengthen, or deliver; as, to relieve a besieged town.

Synonyms for Relieve:

• adj.

  •unburden (adjective)
  • unburden,
  • unbosom.

• n.

  •
  • spell,
  • substitute.
  •
  • change,
  • succeed,
  • divert,
  • decrease,
  • diminish,
  • swap,
  • replace.
  •
  • deaden,
  • numb.
  •
  • clear,
  • disburden,
  • lift,
  • unburden,
  • correct,
  • revitalize,
  • shake off,
  • improve,
  • disencumber,
  • shake.
  •
  • boost,
  • succor,
  • untie.
  •
  • dispense.
  •relieve (noun)
  • palliate,
  • unbosom,
  • excuse,
  • remedy,
  • exempt,
  • save,
  • ease,
  • still,
  • assuage,
  • take over,
  • allay,
  • salvage,
  • alleviate,
  • salve.

• v.

  •aid (verb)
  • benefit,
  • foster,
  • fund,
  • help,
  • encourage,
  • abet,
  • assist,
  • tend,
  • support,
  • aid,
  • serve,
  • sustain,
  • attend,
  • endow,
  • minister,
  • facilitate,
  • motivate,
  • mother.
  •alleviate (verb)
  • allay,
  • reduce,
  • moderate,
  • lessen,
  • mitigate,
  • soothe,
  • palliate.
  •console (verb)
  • commiserate,
  • reassure,
  • sympathize.
  •dismiss (verb)
  • except,
  • absolve,
  • pardon,
  • excuse,
  • license,
  • dismiss,
  • free,
  • release,
  • stay,
  • reprieve,
  • privilege,
  • exempt,
  • liberate,
  • dispel,
  • permit,
  • discharge.
  •help; give assistance (verb)
  • take the place of,
  • take over from,
  • support,
  • bring aid,
  • sustain,
  • give a rest,
  • succor,
  • stand in for,
  • spell,
  • substitute for,
  • aid,
  • give a break,
  • assist,
  • give a hand.
  •interrupt (verb)
  • delay,
  • stop,
  • suspend,
  • postpone,
  • snag,
  • break,
  • recess,
  • pause,
  • interrupt.
  •lighten (verb)
  • lighten,
  • unload.
  •make less painful; let up on (verb)
  • console,
  • free,
  • decrease,
  • calm,
  • moderate,
  • brighten,
  • soothe,
  • relax,
  • abate,
  • cure,
  • slacken,
  • appease,
  • quiet,
  • qualify,
  • comfort,
  • temper,
  • salve,
  • lighten,
  • solace,
  • ease,
  • divert,
  • break,
  • allay,
  • vary,
  • dull,
  • soften,
  • take load off one's mind,
  • palliate,
  • mollify,
  • take load off one's chest,
  • subdue,
  • mitigate,
  • alleviate,
  • assuage,
  • diminish,
  • interrupt.
  •pacify (verb)
  • calm,
  • quell,
  • mollify,
  • conciliate,
  • ebb,
  • pacify,
  • quiet,
  • soften,
  • placate,
  • defuse,
  • hush,
  • stabilize,
  • cool,
  • smooth,
  • compose,
  • reconcile,
  • tranquilize.
  •relieve (verb)
  • appease,
  • lull,
  • remedy,
  • console,
  • ease,
  • alleviate,
  • cure,
  • comfort,
  • assuage.
  •remove blame, responsibility (verb)
  • absolve,
  • pull,
  • excuse,
  • discharge,
  • dismiss,
  • exempt,
  • release,
  • unburden,
  • privilege,
  • disencumber,
  • dispense,
  • yank,
  • disembarrass,
  • throw out,
  • deliver,
  • spare,
  • force to resign.
  •rescue (verb)
  • emancipate,
  • deliver,
  • extricate,
  • save,
  • rescue.
  •social (verb)
  • take over.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • switch,
  • substitute,
  • heal,
  • disencumber,
  • disburden,
  • rotate,
  • represent,
  • swap,
  • deaden,
  • unburden,
  • interchange.
  •
  • alternate,
  • change,
  • numb.
  •
  • revive,
  • succeed.
  •
  • bail out,
  • reverse.
  •
  • boost,
  • dispense.
  •
  • shake.
  •
  • spell.
  •
  • act.
  •acquit
  • let go.
  •aid
  • lend a hand.
  •assist
  • give a leg up,
  • give a lift,
  • facilitate,
  • work with,
  • work for,
  • give a boost.
  •calm
  • placate,
  • quieten.
  •cover
  • take over,
  • double for,
  • stand in for.
  •decrease
  • slake.
  •free
  • manumit.
  •lighten
  • lighten,
  • make lighter.
  •revitalize
  • revitalize.
  •rid
  • disburden,
  • disembarrass.
  •rotate
  • take turns.
  •soothe
  • salve,
  • soothe.
  •spell
  • spell,
  • take the place of.
  •substitute
  • substitute,
  • cover for,
  • act for,
  • swap places with,
  • pinch-hit.
  •unburden
  • disencumber.
  •Other relevant words:
  • dissent,
  • rally,
  • annex,
  • conserve,
  • cover,
  • properly,
  • divert,
  • consolatory,
  • spare,
  • curtail,
  • decrease,
  • prolific,
  • quench,
  • apologize,
  • Reenlist,
  • ransom,
  • bring aid,
  • anaglyph,
  • dispense,
  • take over from,
  • recruit,
  • lay,
  • calm down,
  • favor,
  • gratify,
  • absorb,
  • fecund,
  • accept,
  • ghostwrite,
  • shorten,
  • carry through,
  • extrication,
  • re-up,
  • restore,
  • nurse,
  • recovery,
  • becomingly,
  • revitalize,
  • Disentitle,
  • unloosen,
  • reanimate,
  • cushion,
  • supersede,
  • fitly,
  • redeem,
  • silence,
  • disencumber,
  • alms,
  • relax,
  • do good,
  • loosen,
  • make unnecessary,
  • correct,
  • cheer,
  • ample,
  • forsake,
  • double,
  • set up,
  • exchange,
  • fairly,
  • Deoppilate,
  • subside,
  • succeed,
  • high relief,
  • Untighten,
  • rectify,
  • resign,
  • delivery,
  • liberation,
  • abandon,
  • regularly,
  • retain,
  • replace,
  • forgiving,
  • hold office,
  • refresh,
  • diverge,
  • full,
  • amend,
  • favour,
  • acquit,
  • hold open,
  • pinch-hit,
  • disburden,
  • lenify,
  • cover for,
  • duly,
  • harbor,
  • exonerate,
  • displace,
  • redemption,
  • extenuate,
  • ease up on,
  • nicely,
  • pull out,
  • make lighter,
  • Stupe,
  • ease up,
  • exculpate,
  • brighten,
  • act,
  • milk,
  • advance,
  • double for,
  • intaglio,
  • easing,
  • assume,
  • rip off,
  • promote,
  • divest,
  • bear through,
  • hush up,
  • uphold,
  • bear a hand,
  • extinguish,
  • salvation,
  • gentle,
  • conduct,
  • help out,
  • repeat,
  • vary,
  • doctor,
  • give up,
  • untie,
  • comfortableness,
  • correctly,
  • suppress,
  • poultice,
  • politely,
  • facility,
  • subsidize,
  • rid,
  • take load off one's chest,
  • back,
  • ghost,
  • discontinue,
  • apologise,
  • keep open,
  • clear,
  • interchange,
  • lend a hand,
  • gladden,
  • save up,
  • befriend,
  • mine,
  • lubricate,
  • numb,
  • reawaken,
  • mulct,
  • eliminate,
  • take over,
  • maintain,
  • exactly,
  • minister to,
  • salve,
  • diminish,
  • take off,
  • fittingly,
  • relinquish,
  • untie the knot,
  • borrow,
  • lay aside,
  • manumit,
  • swop,
  • reclaim,
  • reparation,
  • crowd out,
  • loose,
  • raise,
  • serve time,
  • succour,
  • disembarrass,
  • anesthetize,
  • subrogate,
  • weaken,
  • seemly,
  • repose,
  • counteractive,
  • tone down,
  • heal,
  • pad,
  • enlist,
  • rich,
  • throw out,
  • act for,
  • do over,
  • buy out,
  • hearten,
  • yank,
  • tranquillise,
  • qualify,
  • quieten,
  • give a hand,
  • plunder,
  • swap places with,
  • seize,
  • affluent,
  • ransack,
  • divaricate,
  • tranquillize,
  • do time,
  • productive,
  • treat,
  • cameo,
  • physic,
  • give a leg up,
  • deliverance,
  • condole with,
  • have a go,
  • reinforce,
  • heavy,
  • terminate,
  • forgive,
  • supplant,
  • differentiate,
  • lighten up,
  • still,
  • altorilievo,
  • dislodge,
  • switch,
  • rightly,
  • fall,
  • appropriately,
  • merciful,
  • stand in for,
  • plaster,
  • redress,
  • reverse,
  • benevolent,
  • please,
  • substitute for,
  • propitiate,
  • represent,
  • back off,
  • satisfy,
  • take load off one's mind,
  • preserve,
  • comforting,
  • adopt,
  • rationalise,
  • exemplify,
  • avail,
  • disunify,
  • take the place of,
  • plentiful,
  • deregulate,
  • blunt,
  • let,
  • cup,
  • scavenge,
  • foment,
  • capture,
  • economize,
  • put,
  • relief,
  • dispensed,
  • Deobstruct,
  • change,
  • sign up,
  • well-off,
  • take away from,
  • Displant,
  • rifle,
  • abate,
  • dull,
  • unravel,
  • shut up,
  • knock over,
  • salvage,
  • give a boost,
  • unfreeze,
  • appropriate,
  • improve,
  • drain,
  • sympathize with,
  • bear,
  • dose,
  • go,
  • protect,
  • temper,
  • further,
  • revive,
  • get rid of,
  • low relief,
  • variegate,
  • bear up,
  • slacken,
  • shake,
  • bassorilievo,
  • benumb,
  • end,
  • work for,
  • condole,
  • consign,
  • dispossess,
  • Unballast,
  • fill in for,
  • boost,
  • unclog,
  • make easier,
  • pull,
  • differ,
  • substitute,
  • forward,
  • rationalize,
  • disengage,
  • control,
  • work with,
  • fat,
  • time off,
  • supply,
  • deprive,
  • give a rest,
  • resurrect,
  • succor,
  • subdue,
  • explain,
  • Unstop,
  • bereave,
  • settle,
  • tranquility,
  • prevent,
  • delight,
  • give a lift,
  • despoil,
  • reenforce,
  • put forward,
  • meliorate,
  • carry,
  • assure,
  • conquer,
  • readiness,
  • neatly,
  • medallion,
  • recite,
  • manicure,
  • put at ease,
  • off-load,
  • force to resign,
  • bring through,
  • amuse,
  • tap,
  • medal,
  • void,
  • spell,
  • stick up,
  • eased,
  • lightening,
  • humor,
  • abridge,
  • cut,
  • set free,
  • bright,
  • usurp,
  • justify,
  • rob,
  • charitable,
  • Unlade,
  • bas relief,
  • denude,
  • interpret,
  • remove,
  • beg off,
  • unburden,
  • liberal,
  • unloose,
  • diversify,
  • loot,
  • variate,
  • alternate,
  • deep,
  • take from,
  • opulent,
  • slake,
  • give a break,
  • swap,
  • aright,
  • free from,
  • economise,
  • lift,
  • let-off,
  • mend,
  • deaden,
  • grand,
  • resuscitate,
  • let go,
  • decently,
  • better,
  • remit,
  • set at ease,
  • buy up,
  • understudy,
  • push forward,
  • strip,
  • arrogate,
  • pour oil on,
  • take turns,
  • disentangle,
  • deprive of,
  • solace,
  • revivify,
  • repair,
  • aptly,
  • shake off,
  • take on,
  • popularize,
  • condone,
  • bail out,
  • stand,
  • fruitful,
  • precisely,
  • rotate,
  • justly,
  • easiness,
  • ameliorate,
  • take down,
  • bleed,
  • unbosom,
  • sub.

Antonyms for Relieve:

• Other antonyms:

  • n. t.
    accuse, aggravate, agitate, allow, annoy, apply, appoint, blame, bog, bog down, burden, darken, depress, destroy, detain, discourage, distress, emphasize, employ, encumber, enforce, engage, enlarge, exacerbate, excite, hamper, harm, heighten, help, hire, hold, hurt, impair, implement, imprison, incite, increase, injure, intensify, irritate, pain, provoke, push, restrain, rouse, saddle, shackle, sharpen, stay, subject, weigh down, weight, weight down, worry, worsen, put an extra burden on.

• v.

  • make less painful; let up on
    condemn, accuse, grow, blame, rouse, annoy, discourage, agitate, increase, intensify, darken, aggravate, excite, hurt, depress, worry, worsen, harm, irritate, pain, allow, upset, trouble, burden, enlarge, injure, incite, stay, distress, vex, provoke.
  • remove blame, responsibility
    employ, maintain, push, hold, keep, detain, imprison, hire, engage.
  • Other antonyms:
    embitter, injure, magnify, implement, hurt, apply, shackle, bog, harm, hamper, sharpen, exacerbate, enhance, burden, weight, augment, intensify, increase, weigh down, restrain, fetter, enforce, saddle, encumber, impair, subject, aggravate, heighten.