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relieve

How to use relieve in a sentence

We should have to admit that the new law does little or nothing to relieve such a situation.

Learn to do well: seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge for the fatherless, defend the widow.

Ciudad Rodrigo and Almeida fell without the English commander making any apparent effort to relieve them.

Dorothy had tried her best to relieve Letty of half her burthen, and in return had been made a bone of contention between them.

Consequently the House gave a friendly reception to a Bill intended to relieve them of some of their pecuniary burdens.

Tom and Blanche had fallen into teasing tricks, a sort of melancholy play to relieve the tedium.

They therefore petitioned General McArthur to relieve them temporarily from duty to recuperate their strength.

The court found Byng guilty of negligence in not having done his utmost in the endeavour to relieve Minorca.

A covenant to protect the buyer from encumbrances, claims, etc., does not always relieve him from the expense of a lawsuit.

I can't see father pining and fretting himself to death about his son, without doing something to relieve his mind.

SYNONYM OF THE DAY

OCTOBER 26, 1985