Relief

Noun

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

Synonyms

 * ease, alleviation
 * ease, alleviation
 * stand-in, substitute, backup, fill-in
 * embossing
 * topography

Derived terms

 * relief agency
 * relief pitcher
 * relief map
 * relief worker

Verbs for Relief
administer—; afford—; derive—from; experience—; extend—; gain—; gasp with—;grant—; hail—; heave a sigh of—; indulge —; mark by—; seek—; speed—; voice—. (charity, dole.) apply for—; infringe upon—; promote—; slash—; —allays; —assuages; —cheers; —comforts; —disburdens; —eases; —encourages; —insures; —mitigates; —remedies; —solves; —smooths; —sustains

Adjectives for Relief
(general)

consequent; speedy; hysterical; parochial; intense; joyous; beautiful; inevitable; delighted; complete; permanent; temporary; marked; distinct; regular; pronounced; infinite; immediate; effective; actual; spiritual; pretended; considerable; delicious; partial; decided; mean; instant; scant; sheer; welcome; urgent; national; decorative; reliable.

Thesaurus
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

Translations

 * American Sign Language:
 * Arabic: راحة
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 解除, 安心, 救濟, 救济
 * Czech:
 * Dutch: opluchting
 * Finnish:
 * French: ,
 * German: ,
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew: הקלה (hɑkɑlɑ)


 * Irish: faoiseamh
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 安心, 救済
 * Korean: 제고 (jego)
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian: uşurare, alinare
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic: faochadh
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:
 * Telugu: ఉపశమనం (upaSamanam)


 * German:
 * Italian:
 * Kurdish:
 * Meru:
 * Portuguese: auxílio, assistência humanitária


 * Romanian: asistenţă umanitară, ajutor umanitar
 * Scottish Gaelic: faochadh
 * Spanish: ayuda humanitaria
 * Swahili:


 * Bosnian:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Italian: ,
 * Norwegian:
 * Polish:


 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:, basorelief , altorelief
 * Russian:
 * Serbian:
 * Cyrillic: рељеф
 * Roman: reljef


 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew: תִּבְלֹטֶת (tivlotet), תבליט (tɑvlit)


 * Italian: ,
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:

Anagrams

 * liefer
 * refile

Noun

 * 1) relief

Noun

 * 1) relief (meaning elevation's of earth's surface)

Related terms

 * reliefa
 * reliefare
 * reliefat