relieved
(of pain or sorrow) made easier to bear
How often you will meet it
Rank 2,448 of 71,295 words measured. It occurs 7,000 times across 175,173 chapters — 0.003% of every word in the library.
What it means
adjective
- (of pain or sorrow) made easier to bear also: alleviated, eased
- extending out above or beyond a surface or boundary also: jutting, projected, projecting, protruding, sticking, sticking out the jutting limb of a treemassive projected buttresses
relieved in real books
Each sentence below was written by a published author and is taken from a different book in our library. Open one to read the passage it came from, with narration.
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Brown felt relieved, and was deeply thankful.
Following the Equator — Part 1 · Mark Twain · Chapter 1
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I could see that he was relieved.
The Little Nugget · P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse · Chapter 1
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By failing to keep your engagements, you have relieved me of mine.
Other People's Money · Emile Gaboriau · Chapter 1
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And Father smiled down at Marmaduke, and oh, wasn't that little boy relieved and happy, and his brother, too!
Half-Past Seven Stories · Robert Gordon Anderson · Chapter 1
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Who knows what goadings in their sterner way O'er jagged ice, relieved by granite gray, Blew round the men of Massachusetts Bay?
Pennsylvania Pilgrim, and other poems Part 6 From — Volume I · John Greenleaf Whittier · Chapter 1