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Definition of relieving : 1. of Relieve
2. Serving or tending to relieve.

Synonyms:

sympathizing

lightening, unloading

endowing, benefiting, serving, mothering, ministering, aiding, fostering, abetting, encouraging, facilitating, sustaining, helping, funding, assisting, tending, motivating, supporting, attending

emancipating, rescuing, saving, extricating, delivering

pausing, breaking, snagging, postponing, recessing, stopping, delaying, interrupting, suspending

condoling, commiserating, sympathetic, reassuring

moderating, palliating, mitigating, allaying, reducing, lessening, soothing

comforting, alleviating, easing, consoling, curing, lulling, appeasing, assuaging, remedying

discharging, privileging, excusing, releasing, staying, absolving, dismissing, licensing, permitting, reprieving, liberating, exempting, pardoning, dispelling, excepting, freeing

ebbing, conciliating, quelling, placating, cooling, composing, reconciling, pacifying, smoothing, softening, stabilizing, tranquilizing, defusing, mollifying, hushing, calming, quieting

Usage examples:

• She had the means of relieving the boy's embarrassment if they were but in her own hands, but she had put the greater part of these in her master's care for investment, and she could not obtain any large sum of money without application to him. - "Bessie Bradford's Prize", Joanna H. Mathews.
• In return for relieving Jeanne of his presence he hoped she might at times remember him with kindness. - "Somewhere in France", Richard Harding Davis.
• She could not have taken a better way of relieving us. - "Wilfrid Cumbermede", George MacDonald.