He contributed much money to relieving the poor.
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Relieving
Synonyms for "relieving" (66 found)
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Closest matches (14)
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Related words (33)
Noun(18 words)
Adjective(1 words)
soothing tone
Verb(1 words)
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More general
15 entriesactionadjectivecoveringdecompressionduty substitutioneasehandoverload reductionoperationprocessqualitative adjectivereduction of discomfortreliefstress reliefsubstitution
More specific
16 entriesanalgesiaanxiety-relievingduty handoveremergency replacementguard reliefload reliefpain reliefpain-relievingpressure reliefshift changeshift reliefshort-term replacementstrain reliefsymptom reliefsymptom-relievingtask handover
Collocations
10 entriespain-relievingrelieving burdenrelieving distressrelieving of guardsrelieving officerrelieving painrelieving pressurerelieving stressrelieving symptomsrelieving tension
Inflections
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4 entriesSample sentences
8 total sentences available.
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.
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I'm relieving you of duty.
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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.
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