releeve

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A form of relieve — To ease (a person, person's thoughts etc.) from mental distress; to stop (someone) feeling anxious or worried, to alleviate the distress of.

Scrabble 10

Meanings

verbreleeve (third-person singular simple present releeves, present participle releeving, simple past and past participle releeved)

present singular third person releeves · participle present releeving · participle past releeved · past releeved

  1. obsoleteObsolete spelling of relieve.

    And in faith Sir unlesse your hospitalitie doe releeve us, wee are like to wander with a sorrowfull hey ho, among the owlets, & Hobgoblins of the Forrest […]

    c. 1590 (date written), G[eorge] P[eele], The Old Wiues Tale. […], London: […] Iohn Danter, for Raph Hancocke, and Iohn Hardie, […], published 1595, →OCLC
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