Relieving

He contributed much money to relieving the poor.

If one were to use the pronoun "one" it would go a long way towards relieving the inconvenience of not having a gender-neutral pronoun in English.

I'm relieving you of duty.

It’s quite obvious that the purport of these misanthropic theories consists in slandering the working masses, relieving imperialism from the responsibility for the bloody wars it provokes, and imposing the thought that wars are endless and are allegedly caused by aggressive tendencies in human nature.

Grammar being the art of relieving the difficulties of a language, the lever must not be heavier than the load it lifts.

Like a weary insomniac, France too greeted the relieving dawn chiefly longing for one thing only – repose.

Purple flowers are commonly contrasted with centres or variegations of bright yellow, as blue flowers are with like relievings of orange […]

The light—divested of its aching brilliancy, lies sweetly upon the floor, checkered as that old man's life, in its quaint, yet charming relievings of shadow.