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Relief Feel Pain Food Noun Sense Happy Unpleasant

word relief
definition
noun
If you feel a sense of relief, you feel happy because something unpleasant has not happened or is no longer happening .
I breathed a sigh of relief.
The news will come as a great relief to the French authorities.
To his relief a loud knock on the door spared him from giving an explanation.
It's a relief to get out of the office once in a while.
If something provides relief from pain or distress, it stops the pain or distress.
This brought considerable relief from the pain.
...a self-help programme which can give lasting relief from the torment of hay fever.
Relief is money, food, or clothing that is provided for people who are very poor, or who have been affected by war or a natural disaster .
Relief agencies are stepping up efforts to provide food, shelter and agricultural equipment.
...famine relief.
A relief worker is someone who does your work when you go home, or who is employed to do it instead of you when you are sick .
No relief drivers were available.
A relief is a sculpture that is carved out of a flat vertical surface.
inflections reliefslet-up
cefr-level B2

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