relieve

Other forms of relieve

past tense

relieved·

present participle

relieving·

third person

relieves·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about relieve

What does relieve mean?

relieve means "provide physical relief, as from pain". That is the primary sense; the word has 11 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in relieve?

relieve has 2 syllables: re-lieve. The stress falls on "lieve". In IPA it is /ɹɪˈliv/.

What is another word for relieve?

Close synonyms include alleviate, palliate, assuage, take over, exempt. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is relieve a common word?

relieve is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with relieve?

5 words rhyme with relieve. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.