relieve /riˈli:v/ vt. 1.减轻，解除：relieve pain 减轻痛苦，止痛；relieve one’s feelings 发泄感情；relieve nature 大小便；relieve a person of a headache 医好某人头痛 2.救济，援救：relieve the poor 救济穷人；relieve a city from capture解救某城市之围