Clues for the word "RELIEVE"
We've had 58 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 107 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Your Life Choices crossword on September 24, 2025.
Definition of relieve
- v. t. - To lift up; to raise again, as one who has fallen; to cause to rise.
- v. t. - To cause to seem to rise; to put in relief; to give prominence or conspicuousness to; to set off by contrast.
- v. t. - To raise up something in; to introduce a contrast or variety into; to remove the monotony or sameness of.
- v. t. - 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.
- v. t. - 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.
- v. t. - 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.
- v. t. - 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.
Referring Clues
- Go in for
- Take over for
- Soothe
- Take over for, as a pitcher
- Substitute for, as a pitcher
- Spell
- Alleviate
- Assuage
- Sub for
- Free
- Unburden
- Give a break
- Come out of the bullpen
- Fill in for
- Ease up
- Let up on
- Bring ease to
- Raise seige of
- Lessen, as pressure
- Furnisn aid to
- Ease, as pain
- Substitute for
- Ease
- Take over for a band member
- Break the sameness of
- King and two biblical characters free of duty
- Take over from with ease
- Right pair of OT characters, free
- Free of duty
- To lie back always contains, or will alleviate, the pain
- Take weight off king, priest and first lady
- Provide reassurance about rumoured vacation
- Take over (from) - ease worries (of)
- Ease pain or burden
- Take the place of soldiers reportedly on furlough
- Take over from
- Free from duty and anxiety
- Steward takes lithium to relax
- Replace on the mound
- Take over the duties of
- Assuage in a way that may foolishly rile a woman
- Go through again to take point with ease
- Make things easier for old priest, ever out and about
- Come to the help of magistrate who's consumed lithium
- Help go through it again, putting in extra energy
- Take over duty with ease
- First halves of real life events are dull
- Take away anxiety about holiday, say
- See special instructions
- Royal Engineers go, reportedly, to raise a siege
- Sappers reportedly go free
- Go through life again accepting end of life of ease
- Free to go through again, retaining key
- Antonym of "aggravate"
- Ease, as tension
- Lessen, like pain
- Take over responsibilities from
- Mitigate
Last Seen In
- Your Life Choices - September 24, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - August 10, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - June 30, 2025
- New Zealand Herald - March 31, 2025
- Daily Quick - February 10, 2025
- Daily American - January 27, 2025
- Mindfood Daily - December 25, 2024
- LA Times - December 07, 2024
- Evening Standard Quick - November 26, 2024
- Mirror Daily - November 25, 2024
- Daily Quick - November 23, 2024
- Daily Quick - September 18, 2024
- USA Today - July 19, 2024
- Daily Quick - June 15, 2024
- Evening Standard Cryptic - March 27, 2024
- New Zealand Herald - March 22, 2024
- Mirror Daily - January 11, 2024
- Daily American - January 02, 2024
- Your Life Choices - September 20, 2023
- New Zealand Herald - May 25, 2023
- Daily Quick - February 10, 2023
- Daily American - January 27, 2023
- Mindfood Daily - December 13, 2022
- Mirror Daily - December 09, 2022
- Daily Quick - November 23, 2022
- Evening Standard Easy - September 30, 2022
- Daily Quick - September 18, 2022
- Daily Quick - June 15, 2022
- Mirror Daily - June 12, 2022
- Evening Standard Cryptic - January 22, 2018
- And in 77 more crossword puzzles...