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Relive vs. Relieve — What's the Difference?

Relive vs. Relieve — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Relive and Relieve

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Relive

To undergo or experience again, especially in the imagination.

Relieve

To cause a lessening or alleviation of
Relieved all his symptoms.
Relieved the tension.

Relive

To live again.

Relieve

To make less tedious, monotonous, or unpleasant
Only one small candle relieved the gloom.

Relive

(transitive) To experience (something) again; to live over again.
I relive that horrible accident every night and wake screaming.
Replays in video games allow you to relive your greatest moments.
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Relieve

To free from pain, anxiety, or distress
I was relieved by the news that they had arrived home safely.

Relive

To bring back to life; to revive, resuscitate.

Relieve

To furnish assistance or aid to
Relieve the flooded region.

Relive

(intransitive) To come back to life.

Relieve

To rescue from siege.

Relive

To live again; to revive.

Relieve

To release (a person) from an obligation, restriction, or burden.

Relive

To recall to life; to revive.

Relieve

To free from a specified duty by providing or acting as a substitute.

Relive

Experience again, often in the imagination;
He relived the horrors of war

Relieve

(Baseball) To enter the game as a relief pitcher after (another pitcher).

Relieve

(Informal) To rob or deprive
Pickpockets relieved him of his money.

Relieve

(Archaic) To make prominent or effective by contrast; set off.

Relieve

(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.

Relieve

(transitive) To ease (someone, a part of the body etc.) or give relief from physical pain or discomfort.

Relieve

(transitive) To alleviate (pain, distress, mental discomfort etc.).

Relieve

(transitive) To provide comfort or assistance to (someone in need, especially in poverty).

Relieve

(obsolete) To lift up; to raise again.

Relieve

To raise (someone) out of danger or from (a specified difficulty etc.).

Relieve

(legal) To free (someone) from debt or legal obligations; to give legal relief to.
This shall not relieve either Party of any obligations.

Relieve

(transitive) To bring military help to (a besieged town); to lift the siege on.

Relieve

To release (someone) from or of a difficulty, unwanted task, responsibility etc.

Relieve

To free (someone) from their post, task etc. by taking their place.

Relieve

To make (something) stand out; to make prominent, bring into relief.

Relieve

To urinate or defecate.

Relieve

To ease one's own desire to orgasm, often through masturbation to orgasm.

Relieve

To lift up; to raise again, as one who has fallen; to cause to rise.

Relieve

To cause to seem to rise; to put in relief; to give prominence or conspicuousness to; to set off by contrast.
Her tall figure relieved against the blue sky; seemed almost of supernatural height.

Relieve

To raise up something in; to introduce a contrast or variety into; to remove the monotony or sameness of.
The poet must . . . sometimes relieve the subject with a moral reflection.

Relieve

To raise or remove, as anything which depresses, weighs down, or crushes; to render less burdensome or afflicting; to alleviate; to abate; to mitigate; to lessen; as, to relieve pain; to relieve the wants of the poor.

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.
Now lend assistance and relieve the poor.

Relieve

To release from a post, station, or duty; to put another in place of, or to take the place of, in the bearing of any burden, or discharge of any duty.
Who hath relieved you?

Relieve

To ease of any imposition, burden, wrong, or oppression, by judicial or legislative interposition, as by the removal of a grievance, by indemnification for losses, or the like; to right.

Relieve

Provide physical relief, as from pain;
This pill will relieve your headaches

Relieve

Free someone temporarily from his or her obligations

Relieve

Grant relief or an exemption from a rule or requirement to;
She exempted me from the exam

Relieve

Lessen the intensity of or calm;
The news eased my conscience
Still the fears

Relieve

Save from ruin, destruction, or harm

Relieve

Relieve oneself of troubling information

Relieve

Alleviate or remove;
Relieve the pressure and the stress

Relieve

Provide relief for;
Remedy his illness

Relieve

Free from a burden, evil, or distress

Relieve

Take by stealing;
The thief relieved me of $100

Relieve

Grant exemption or release to;
Please excuse me from this class

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