Relieve
King James Dictionary [1]
Relie'Ve, L relevo. See Relief.
1. To free, wholly or partially, from pain, grief, want, anxiety, care, toil, trouble, burden, oppression or any thing that is considered to be an evil to ease of any thing that pains the body or distresses the mind. Repose relieves the wearied body a supply of provisions relieves a family in want medicines may relieve the sick man, even when they do not cure him. We all desire to be relieved from anxiety and from heavy taxes. Law or duty, or both, require that we should relieve the poor and destitute. 2. To alleviate or remove as when we say, to relieve pain or distress to relieve the wants of the poor. 3. To dismiss from a post or station, as sentinels, a guard or ships, and station others in their place. Sentinels are generally relieved every two hours a guard is usually relieved once in twenty four hours. 4. To right to ease of any burden, wrong or oppression by judicial or legislative interposition, by the removal of a grievance, by indemnification for losses and the like. 5. To abate the inconvenience of any thing by change, or by the interposition of something dissimilar. The moon relieves the luster of the sun with a milder light.
The poet must not encumber his poem with, too much business, but sometimes relieve the subject with a moral reflection.
6. To assist to support.
Parallels or like relations alternately relieve each other when neither will pass asunder, yet are they plausible together.
Webster's Dictionary [2]
(1): ( v. t.) To raise up something in; to introduce a contrast or variety into; to remove the monotony or sameness of.
(2): ( 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.
(3): ( 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.
(4): ( v. t.) To lift up; to raise again, as one who has fallen; to cause to rise.
(5): ( v. t.) To cause to seem to rise; to put in relief; to give prominence or conspicuousness to; to set off by contrast.
(6): ( 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.
(7): ( 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.
Vine's Expository Dictionary of NT Words [3]
signifies "to be strong enough for," and so either "to ward off," or "to aid, to relieve" (a strengthened form of arkeo, which has the same three meanings, epi being intensive); it is used in 1—Timothy 5:10,16 (twice).
