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English

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Noun

  1. the removal of stress or discomfort
  2. the feeling associated with the removal of stress or dicomfort
  3. something that relieves
  4. the person who takes over a shift for another
  5. :Officer Schmidt can finally go home because his relief has arrived.
  6. aid or assistance offered in time of need
  7. court-ordered compensation, aid, or protection, a redress
  8. tax savings.
  9. a type of artwork in which shapes or figures protrude from a flat background
  10. the difference made noticeable by a variation in light or color
  11. the different elevations of the earth's surface


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Translations

  • Arabic:
  • Chinese: 解除 (jiě chú)
  • Czech: {{t-|cs|úleva|f}}
  • Dutch: opluchting
  • Finnish:
  • French: {{t+|fr|soulagement|m}}, {{t+|fr|allégement|m}}
  • German: Erleichterung
  • Greek: {{t+|el|ανακούφιση|f|sc=Grek}}
  • Hebrew: הקלה (hɑkɑlɑ)
  • Italian: {{t-|it|sollievo|m}}
  • Japanese: 安心 (anshin)
  • Korean: 제고 (jego)
  • Polish: {{t-|pl|ulga|f}}
  • Portuguese: {{t+|pt|alívio|m}}
  • Russian: {{t+|ru|облегчение|n|tr=oblexčénije|sc=Cyrl}}
  • Spanish: {{t-|es|alivio|m}}
  • Swedish:
  • Telugu: ఉపశమనం (upaSamanam)
  • Italian: {{t+|it|assistenza|f}}
  • Kurdish: {{t-|ku|چار|sc=KUchar}}
  • Bosnian: {{t-|bs|reljef|m}}
  • Italian: {{t+|it|rilievo|m}}, {{t+|it|bassorilievo|m}}
  • Portuguese: {{t+|pt|relevo|m}}
  • Serbian:
  • : Cyrillic: рељеф
  • : Roman: reljef
  • Portuguese: {{t+|pt|relevo|m}}
  • Russian: {{t+|ru|рельеф|m|tr=reljéf|sc=Cyrl}}

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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Relief \Re*lief"\ (r?-l?f"), n. [OE. relef, F. relief, properly,
a lifting up, a standing out. See Relieve, and cf.
Basrelief, Rilievi.]
1. The act of relieving, or the state of being relieved; the
removal, or partial removal, of any evil, or of anything
oppressive or burdensome, by which some ease is obtained;
succor; alleviation; comfort; ease; redress.
[1913 Webster]

He sees the dire contagion spread so fast,
That, where it seizes, all relief is vain. --Dryden.
[1913 Webster]

2. Release from a post, or from the performance of duty, by
the intervention of others, by discharge, or by relay; as,
a relief of a sentry.
[1913 Webster]

For this relief much thanks; 'tis bitter cold.
--Shak.
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3. That which removes or lessens evil, pain, discomfort,
uneasiness, etc.; that which gives succor, aid, or
comfort; also, the person who relieves from performance of
duty by taking the place of another; a relay.
[1913 Webster]

4. (Feudal Law) A fine or composition which the heir of a
deceased tenant paid to the lord for the privilege of
taking up the estate, which, on strict feudal principles,
had lapsed or fallen to the lord on the death of the
tenant.
[1913 Webster]

5. (Sculp. & Arch.) The projection of a figure above the
ground or plane on which it is formed.
[1913 Webster]

Note: Relief is of three kinds, namely, high relief
(altorilievo), low relief, (basso-rilievo), and
demirelief (mezzo-rilievo). See these terms in the
Vocabulary.
[1913 Webster]

6. (Paint.) The appearance of projection given by shading,
shadow, etc., to any figure.
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7. (Fort.) The height to which works are raised above the
bottom of the ditch. --Wilhelm.
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8. (Physical Geog.) The elevations and surface undulations of
a country. --Guyot.
[1913 Webster]

Relief valve, a valve arranged for relieving pressure of
steam, gas, or liquid; an escape valve.
[1913 Webster]

Syn: Alleviation; mitigation; aid; help; succor; assistance;
remedy; redress; indemnification.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet relief
n 1: the feeling that comes when something burdensome is removed
or reduced; "as he heard the news he was suddenly
flooded with relief" [syn: alleviation, assuagement]
2: the condition of being comfortable or relieved (especially
after being relieved of distress); "he enjoyed his relief
from responsibility"; "getting it off his conscience gave
him some ease" [syn: ease]
3: (law) redress awarded by a court; "was the relief supposed
to be protection from future harm or compensation for past
injury?"
4: someone who takes the place of another (as when things get
dangerous or difficult); "the star had a stand-in for
dangerous scenes"; "we need extra employees for summer
fill-ins" [syn: stand-in, substitute, reliever, backup,
backup man, fill-in]
5: assistance in time of difficulty; "the contributions
provided some relief for the victims" [syn: succor, succour,
ministration]
6: a pause for relaxation; "people actually accomplish more
when they take time for short rests" [syn: respite, rest,
rest period]
7: a change for the better [syn: easing, moderation]
8: aid for the aged or indigent or handicapped; "he has been on
relief for many years"
9: the act of reducing something unpleasant (as pain or
annoyance); "he asked the nurse for relief from the
constant pain" [syn: easing, easement, alleviation]
10: sculpture consisting of shapes carved on a surface so as to
stand out from the surrounding background [syn: relievo,
rilievo, embossment, sculptural relief]
11: the act of freeing a city or town that has been besieged;
"he asked for troops for the relief of Atlanta"
Moby Dictionary
ADC , CYSP sculpture , Medicaid , Medicare , abatement , agent , aid ,
aid and comfort , alimony , allayment , alleviation , allotment ,
allowance , alterative , alternate , alternative , anaglyph ,
anaglyptics , anaglyptography , analeptic , analogy , annuity ,
appeasement , architectural sculpture , assist , assistance ,
assuagement , assurance , auxiliaries , backup , balm , balsam ,
bas-relief , bellying , benefit , benevolence , boldness , bone-carving ,
boss , bounty , bout , break , bulging , cameo , cameo glass , casting ,
cavo-rilievo , ceroplastics , chance , change , changeling , chasing ,
clay sculpture , clemency , coffee break , comfort , commiseration ,
comparison , compassion , condolence , configuration , consolation ,
contour , contrast , copy , corrective , counterfeit ,
cradle-to-grave security , cure , cut glass , decorative sculpture ,
delineation , deliverance , depletion allowance , deputy ,
disburdening , disencumberment , dole , double , downtime , dummy ,
earth art , ease , easement , easing , elevation , embossing ,
embossment , eminence , encouragement , engraving , equal , equivalent ,
ersatz , exchange , excrescence , excrescency , extrusion , fake , favor ,
features , feeling , fellowship , figuration , figure , fill-in ,
financial assistance , forbearance , forgiveness , founding ,
framework , garden sculpture , gem-cutting , gestalt , ghost ,
ghostwriter , gibbosity , gibbousness , glass sculpture , glyph ,
glyptic , glyptograph , go , good offices , grace , grant , grant-in-aid ,
guaranteed annual income , guaranteed income , half time ,
half-time intermission , hand , healing agent , healing quality ,
health insurance , help , high relief , holiday , humanity , imitation ,
inning , innings , intaglio , intaglio rilevato , intaglio rilievo ,
interim , interlude , intermezzo , intermission , intermittence ,
interregnum , interruption , interval , ivory-carving , kindness ,
leniency , letup , liberation , lift , lightening , lineaments , lines ,
locum tenens , lost-wax process , low relief , lull , main features ,
makeshift , mask , medal , medallion , mercy , metal sculpture ,
metaphor , metonymy , ministration , ministry , mitigation , modeling ,
molding , mollification , monumental sculpture , next best thing ,
off-time , office , offices , old-age assistance , old-age insurance ,
opportunity , outline , paper sculpture , pardon , pathos , pause ,
pecuniary aid , pension , personnel , phony , pinch hitter , pity ,
place , plaquette , plaster casting , plastic art , plateau ,
point of repose , portrait sculpture , prescription , price support ,
profile , projection , prominence , protection , protrusion ,
protuberance , protuberancy , proxy , public assistance ,
public welfare , quarter , quiet spell , reassurance , receipt , recess ,
recipe , redress , reinforcements , release , relief-carving , relievo ,
remedial measure , remedy , remission , replacement , representative ,
reprieve , rescue , reserve forces , reserves , respite , resting point ,
restorative , retirement benefits , ringer , round , ruth , salience ,
salient , say , scholarship , sculptor , sculpture , sculptured glass ,
sculpturing , second string , secondary , self-pity , service , shapes ,
shell-carving , shred of comfort , sickness insurance , sign ,
silhouette , skeleton , social insurance , social security ,
social welfare , socialized medicine , softening , solace , solacement ,
sovereign remedy , spares , specific , specific remedy , spell ,
stand-in , state medicine , statuary , stipend , stone sculpture ,
stonecutting , sub , subsidization , subsidy , substituent , substitute ,
substitution , subvention , succedaneum , succor , superseder ,
supplanter , support , surrogate , symbol , sympathy , synecdoche ,
tax benefit , therapy , third string , time , time at bat , time off ,
time out , token , tournure , tuberosity , tuberousness , turn ,
unballasting , unburdening , understudy , unemployment compensation ,
unemployment insurance , unfreighting , unlading , unloading ,
unsaddling , untaxing , utility player , vacation , vicar ,
vice-president , vice-regent , welfare , welfare aid ,
welfare capitalism , welfare payments , welfare state ,
welfare statism , welfarism , whack , whittling , wire sculpture ,
womb-to-tomb security , wood carving , xyloglyphy


RELIEF, Eng. law. A relief was an incident to every feudal tenure, by way of fine or composition with the lord for taking up the estate which was lapsed or fallen in by the death of the last tenant. At one time the amount was arbitrary; but afterwards the relief of a knight's fee became fixed at one hundred shillings. 2 Bl. Com. 65.
RELIEF, practice. That assistance which a court of chancery will lend to a party to annul a contract tinctured with fraud, or where there has been a mistake or accident; courts of equity grant relief to all parties in cases where they have rights, ex aequo et bono, and modify and fashion that relief according to circumstances.
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