Relief

//ɹɪˈliːf//

Synonyms for "relief" (415 found)

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Strong matches (125)

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dole donation double downtime dummy earth art easement elevation embossment eminence encouragement engraving entertain entertainment equal equivalent ersatz escape exchange excrescence excrescency extrusion fake favor features feeling fellowship figuration figure fill-in financial assistance forbearance forgiveness founding framework freedom 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 ivory-carving kindness leisure leniency lessening letup liberation lift lightening lineaments lines locum tenens lost-wax process low relief lull lulling main features makeshift mask

Noun(7 words)

consolation easement easing embossing embossment indemnification indemnity

Related words (207)

medal medallion medicaid medicare mercy metal sculpture metaphor metonymy ministration ministry mitigation modeling molding mollification monumental sculpture next best thing numbing off-time office offices

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old-age assistance old-age insurance opportunity outlet 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 reduction reinforcement reinforcements relaxation release relief-carving relievo remedial measure remedy remission replacement representative reprieve rescue reserve forces reserves resource resting point restorative retirement benefits ringer round ruth salience salient salve 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 soothing sovereign remedy spare spares specific specific remedy spell stand-in state medicine statuary stipend stone sculpture stonecutting sub subsidization subsidy substituent substitution subvention succedaneum succor superseder supplanter support surrogate symbol sympathy synecdoche tax benefit texture 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-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

Noun(26 words)

mends ministration moderation quittal recompensation recompense redress release reliever relievo remuneration reparation requital requite rest rest period restitution rilievo satisfaction sculptural relief

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solace succor succour texture topography weight off someone's shoulders

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8 relation types

More general

35 entries

aid alteration amends assist assistance break change comfort comfortableness compeer damages decrease diminution equal freeing help

Showing 16 of 35 words.

Synonyms

10 entries

changeover changing comfort ease easing embossing respite stand in substitute texture

at location

1 entries

beer

derived

42 entries

ancillary relief antirelief breathe a sigh of relief comic relief corollary relief counter-relief debt relief demirelief epirelief half-relief high relief hydrostatic pressure relief system hyporelief indoor relief judicial relief low relief

Showing 16 of 42 words.

etymologically related_to

1 entries

relieve

has context

2 entries

law legal

is a

7 entries

aid comfort damages emotion liberation sculpture social welfare

related to

28 entries

aid artwork assistance associate color compensation disaster disaster zones discomfort elevation help letterpress light lowering pain protection

Showing 16 of 28 words.

Translations

249 translations across 55 languages.

Albanian

1 entries

reliev noun (type of artwork)

Ancient Greek

1 entries

ἐκτύπωμα noun (type of artwork)

Arabic

3 entries

تَخْفِيف noun (removal of stress or discomfort)
رَاحَة noun (removal of stress or discomfort)
نَقْش نَافِر noun (type of artwork)

Armenian

2 entries

բառելյեֆ noun (type of artwork)
ռելյեֆ noun (type of artwork)

Belarusian

4 entries

аблягчэ́нне noun (removal of stress or discomfort)
барэлье́ф noun (type of artwork)
палёгка noun (removal of stress or discomfort)
рэлье́ф noun (type of artwork)

Bulgarian

4 entries

изпъкналост noun (apparent difference in elevation)
облекчение noun (removal of stress or discomfort)
облекчение noun (feeling associated with removal of stress or discomfort)
подпомагане noun (humanitarian aid or assistance)

Catalan

4 entries

alleujament noun (removal of stress or discomfort)
consol noun (removal of stress or discomfort)
consol noun (feeling associated with removal of stress or discomfort)
relleu noun (type of artwork)

Central Kurdish

1 entries

چار noun (humanitarian aid or assistance)

Chinese Mandarin

4 entries

安心 noun (removal of stress or discomfort)
救濟 /救济 noun (removal of stress or discomfort)
浮雕 noun (type of artwork)
解除 noun (removal of stress or discomfort)

Czech

4 entries

(humanitární) pomoc noun (humanitarian aid or assistance)
reliéf noun (type of artwork)
reliéf noun (difference of elevations on a surface)
zástup noun (person who takes over a shift)

Danish

3 entries

lettelse noun (removal of stress or discomfort)
lettelse noun (feeling associated with removal of stress or discomfort)
relief noun (type of artwork)

Dutch

4 entries

opluchting noun (removal of stress or discomfort)
opluchting noun (feeling associated with removal of stress or discomfort)
reliëf noun (type of artwork)
reliëf noun (difference of elevations on a surface)

Esperanto

2 entries

ektrankviliĝo noun (removal of stress or discomfort)
reliefo noun (type of artwork)

Estonian

2 entries

bareljeef noun (type of artwork)
reljeef noun (type of artwork)

Finnish

4 entries

apu noun (humanitarian aid or assistance)
apu noun (aid or assistance offered in time of need)
avustus noun (aid or assistance offered in time of need)
helpotus noun (removal of stress or discomfort)

French

4 entries

allégement noun (removal of stress or discomfort)
relief noun (type of artwork)
relief noun (apparent difference in elevation)
relief noun (difference of elevations on a surface)

Galician

2 entries

acougo noun (removal of stress or discomfort)
alivio noun (removal of stress or discomfort)

Georgian

1 entries

რელიეფი noun (type of artwork)

German

4 entries

Ablösung noun (person who takes over a shift)
Beistand noun (humanitarian aid or assistance)
Entlastung noun (removal of stress or discomfort)
Entsatz noun (military assistance to break a siege or an encirclement)

Greek

4 entries

ανάγλυφο noun (type of artwork)
ανάγλυφο noun (difference of elevations on a surface)
ανακούφιση noun (removal of stress or discomfort)
ανακούφιση noun (feeling associated with removal of stress or discomfort)

Hebrew

4 entries

הקלה noun (removal of stress or discomfort)
תִּבְלֹטֶת noun (difference of elevations on a surface)
תבלוטת noun (difference of elevations on a surface)
תבליט noun (type of artwork)

Hungarian

4 entries

adóelengedés noun (reduction in tax)
adókönnyítés noun (reduction in tax)
csillapítás noun (removal of stress or discomfort)
dombormű noun (type of artwork)

Icelandic

1 entries

lágmynd noun (type of artwork)

Indonesian

1 entries

relief noun (type of artwork)

Irish

3 entries

faoiseamh noun (removal of stress or discomfort)
fuascailt noun (aid or assistance offered in time of need)
rilíf noun (type of artwork)

Italian

4 entries

aiuto noun (humanitarian aid or assistance)
assistenza noun (humanitarian aid or assistance)
bassorilievo noun (type of artwork)
cambio noun (person who takes over a shift)

Japanese

4 entries

リリーフ noun (type of artwork)
レリーフ noun (type of artwork)
交代者 noun (person who takes over a shift)
安心 noun (removal of stress or discomfort)

Khmer

2 entries

ចម្លាក់ផុស noun (type of artwork)
ចម្លាក់លៀន noun (type of artwork)

Korean

3 entries

부조 noun (type of artwork)
안심 noun (removal of stress or discomfort)
제고 noun (removal of stress or discomfort)

Latin

4 entries

aberrātiō noun (removal of stress or discomfort)
relevium noun (composition on heir)
solacium noun (removal of stress or discomfort)
subsidium noun (humanitarian aid or assistance)

Latvian

3 entries

cilnis noun (type of artwork)
reljefs noun (type of artwork)
reljefs noun (difference of elevations on a surface)

Lithuanian

1 entries

reljefas noun (type of artwork)

Macedonian

2 entries

релјеф noun (type of artwork)
релјеф noun (difference of elevations on a surface)

Malay

1 entries

bentuk bumi noun (difference of elevations on a surface)

Meru

1 entries

gikeno noun (humanitarian aid or assistance)

Māori

4 entries

manawatau noun (feeling associated with removal of stress or discomfort)
rīwhi noun (person who takes over a shift)
takoto whenua noun (difference of elevations on a surface)
whakamāmātanga noun (removal of stress or discomfort)

Norwegian Bokmål

3 entries

lettelse noun (removal of stress or discomfort)
lindring noun (removal of stress or discomfort)
relieff noun (type of artwork)

Norwegian Nynorsk

2 entries

lindring noun (removal of stress or discomfort)
relieff noun (type of artwork)

Polish

4 entries

relief noun (type of artwork)
ulga noun (removal of stress or discomfort)
wyręka noun (release from a post or duty, as when replaced by another)
wyręka noun (person who takes over a shift)

Portuguese

4 entries

alívio noun (removal of stress or discomfort)
assistência humanitária noun (humanitarian aid or assistance)
auxílio noun (humanitarian aid or assistance)
relevo noun (type of artwork)

Quechua

1 entries

allinyay noun (removal of stress or discomfort)

Romanian

4 entries

ajutor umanitar noun (humanitarian aid or assistance)
alinare noun (removal of stress or discomfort)
altorelief noun (type of artwork)
asistență umanitară noun (humanitarian aid or assistance)

Russian

4 entries

барелье́ф noun (type of artwork)
облегче́ние noun (removal of stress or discomfort)
релье́ф noun (type of artwork)
релье́ф noun (difference of elevations on a surface)

Scottish Gaelic

2 entries

faochadh noun (removal of stress or discomfort)
faochadh noun (humanitarian aid or assistance)

Serbo-Croatian

3 entries

reljef noun (type of artwork)
reljef noun (difference of elevations on a surface)
рељеф noun (type of artwork)

Slovak

1 entries

reliéf noun (type of artwork)

Slovene

1 entries

relief noun (type of artwork)

Spanish

4 entries

aliviane noun (feeling associated with removal of stress or discomfort)
alivio noun (removal of stress or discomfort)
asistencia noun (humanitarian aid or assistance)
auxilio noun (humanitarian aid or assistance)

Swahili

2 entries

faraja noun (removal of stress or discomfort)
faraja noun (humanitarian aid or assistance)

Swedish

4 entries

avlösare noun (person who takes over a shift)
avlösning noun (person who takes over a shift)
bistånd noun (humanitarian aid or assistance)
bistånd noun (aid or assistance offered in time of need)

Telugu

1 entries

ఉపశమనం noun (removal of stress or discomfort)

Turkish

2 entries

kabartma noun (type of artwork)
rölyef noun (type of artwork)

Ukrainian

4 entries

барельє́ф noun (type of artwork)
поле́гшення noun (removal of stress or discomfort)
поле́гшення noun (feeling associated with removal of stress or discomfort)
рельє́ф noun (type of artwork)

Vietnamese

1 entries

рhù điêu noun (type of artwork)

Welsh

3 entries

cerfwedd noun (type of artwork)
gollyngdod noun (removal of stress or discomfort)
rhyddhad noun (removal of stress or discomfort)

Sample sentences

22 total sentences available.

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You have to raise funds for the relief work.

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Once outside, I gave a deep sigh of relief.

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To my relief, he came home safe and sound.

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To our great relief, she returned home safe and sound.

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Relief

Synonyms for "relief" (415 found)

Closest matches (83)

Strong matches (125)

Related words (207)

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Synonyms

at location

derived

etymologically related_to

has context

is a

related to

Translations

Albanian

Ancient Greek

Arabic

Armenian

Belarusian

Bulgarian

Catalan

Central Kurdish

Chinese Mandarin

Czech

Danish

Dutch

Esperanto

Estonian

Finnish

French

Galician

Georgian

German

Greek

Hebrew

Hungarian

Icelandic

Indonesian

Irish

Italian

Japanese

Khmer

Korean

Latin

Latvian

Lithuanian

Macedonian

Malay

Meru

Māori

Norwegian Bokmål

Norwegian Nynorsk

Polish

Portuguese

Quechua

Romanian

Russian

Scottish Gaelic

Serbo-Croatian

Slovak

Slovene

Spanish

Swahili

Swedish

Telugu

Turkish

Ukrainian

Vietnamese

Welsh

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