relieve from

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The second, he said, is for the judiciary to take legal steps against Salameh and relieve from from his post.

From Seattle Times • May 25, 2023

"You instruct, inspect, reprimand and relieve from duty," explains O'Leary, whose World War II stint as an Air Force colonel has given him a fondness for military metaphor.

From Time Magazine Archive

"We are not deprecating," he said, "your vengeance against those whom you have determined to put out of the way, but we entreat you to relieve from uncertainty those whom you have determined to spare."

From Plutarch's Lives, Volume II by Stewart, Aubrey

This reflection may serve to relieve from undeserved reproach an idea of one of the greatest men of the Republic—President Jackson.

From A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents Volume 5, part 3: Franklin Pierce by Richardson, James D. (James Daniel)

Comfort, kum′furt, v.t. to relieve from pain or distress: to soothe: to cheer, revive.—n. relief: encouragement: ease: quiet enjoyment: freedom from annoyance: whatever gives ease, enjoyment, &c.: a subject of satisfaction.—adj.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various