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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