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- adjective Experiencing or exhibiting
relief . - verb Simple past tense and past participle of
relieve .
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- adjective extending out above or beyond a surface or boundary
- adjective (of pain or sorrow) made easier to bear
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Examples
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Finally, mankind will be relieved from the tedious chore of downhill skiing. lansing wedding photographer
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I felt as if I was relieved from a heavy weight, when the packet sailed with a fair wind from Ireland, and I had quitted for ever the country which had been to me the scene of so much misery.
Chapter 4 2010
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Finally, mankind will be relieved from the tedious chore of downhill skiing. lansing wedding photographer
Skiing Robot 2009
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As such it serves the Conservatives who feel relieved from a Left which had put them often too readily into the same camp as the Fascists and to find in this year of elections now a new argument to attack ‘Liberalism’.
hatto fischer | politics and the arts « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground 2008
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Chad Durbin relieved and gave up Jason Bartlett's RBI grounder that pulled the Rays within a run.
USATODAY.com 2008
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Conklin relieved Norrena at the start of the second in the Blue Jackets '4-1 loss to Nashville on Saturday after Norrena gave up three goals on nine shots.
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But Jesse Crain relieved J.C. Romero and retired all three batters he faced to end the threat.
USATODAY.com 2005
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J Baldwin relieved D Cabrera with a two balls and zero strikes.
USATODAY.com 2005
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Lefthander Tom Martin relieved Smoltz after Beltran's homer and was greeted with a blast by Cliff Floyd.
USATODAY.com 2004
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Brandon Phillips and Jhonny Peralta singled before former Indian Tom Martin relieved and allowed a single to Lawton to load the bases.
USATODAY.com 2003
bilby commented on the word relieved
"Syd Price puffs his pipe as he and his 'porters' slither backwards down the mountain.
'When are we going to be relieved?' I asked as a parting question.
'Use a tree,' he calls."
- Spike Milligan, 'Mussolini: My Part In His Downfall'.
April 25, 2009