relief

relief
re|lief
W2S2 [rıˈli:f] n
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1¦(comfort)¦
2¦(reduction of pain)¦
3¦(help)¦
4¦(replacement)¦
5¦(decoration)¦
6 bring/throw something into relief
7 light/comic relief
8¦(money)¦
9¦(war)¦
10¦(map)¦
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[Date: 1300-1400; : Old French; Origin: relever; RELIEVE]
1.) ¦(COMFORT)¦ [singular, U]
a feeling of comfort when something frightening, worrying, or painful has ended or has not happened
→↑relieve
▪ I felt a huge surge of relief and happiness.
with relief
▪ He watched with relief as the girl nodded.
in relief
▪ He laughed in relief.
▪ No one was hurt, and we all breathed a sigh of relief .
it is a relief to see/have/know etc sth
▪ I hate to say it, but it was a relief to have him out of the house.
to sb's relief
▪ To my relief, they spoke English.
what a relief/that's a relief
▪ The doctor said it was just the flu. What a relief!
2.) ¦(REDUCTION OF PAIN)¦[U]
when something reduces someone's pain or unhappy feelings
▪ Marijuana can provide pain relief for some cancer patients.
relief of
▪ the relief of suffering
relief from
▪ The cool room provided relief from the terrible heat outdoors.
3.) ¦(HELP)¦[U]
money, food, clothes etc given to people who are poor or hungry
▪ money raised for the relief effort
disaster/famine/flood etc relief
▪ famine relief for victims of the drought
4.) ¦(REPLACEMENT)¦[U]
a person or group of people that replaces another one and does their work after they have finished
▪ the relief for the military guard
▪ a relief driver
5.) ¦(DECORATION)¦ [U and C]
a way of decorating wood, stone etc with a shape or figure that is raised above the surface, or the decoration itself
→↑bas relief in relief
▪ figures carved in relief
6.) bring/throw sth into relief also stand out in relief
to make something very noticeable, or to be very noticeable
sharp/stark relief
▪ The tree stood out in stark relief against the snow.
▪ The article throws into sharp relief the differences between the two theories.
7.) light/comic relief
a funny moment during a serious film, book, or situation
▪ a moment of comic relief
8.) ¦(MONEY)¦[U]
old-fashioned especially AmE money given by the government to help people who are poor, old, unemployed etc
= ↑welfare on relief
▪ families on relief during the Depression
9.) ¦(WAR)¦[U] formal
the act of freeing a town when it has been surrounded by an enemy
relief of
▪ the relief of Mafeking
10.)¦(MAP)¦
in relief
if you show a part of the Earth's surface in relief, you show the differences in height between different parts of it

Dictionary of contemporary English. 2013.

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  • 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… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

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  • Relief — Sn Abbildung mit erhabener bzw. vertiefter Oberfläche per. Wortschatz fach. (18. Jh.) Entlehnung. Entlehnt aus frz. relief m., eigentlich Hervorheben , zu frz. relever hochheben, aufheben , dieses aus l. relevāre, zu l. levāre heben, wegheben,… …   Etymologisches Wörterbuch der deutschen sprache

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  • Relief — (franz., spr. rölheff, ital. riliēvo), erhabene Arbeit, diejenige Gattung der Bildnerei, welche die Figuren aus einer Ebene oder vertieften Fläche, dem Grunde, erhaben heraustreten läßt. Das R. bildet eine Mittelgattung zwischen der eigentlichen… …   Meyers Großes Konversations-Lexikon

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