Relieve - перевод на Русский и значение в Английском

verb

Diminish or put at rest (fear, suspicion, or worry).

Примеры использования:

The report attempted to educate the public and allay fears

verb

To make a negative emotion less strong or a problem less difficult

Примеры использования:

I was nervous, but seeing her allayed my fears.

verb

If you allay a strong emotion felt by someone, such as fear or worry, you cause them to feel it less or to feel calm again

Примеры использования:

The government is trying to allay public fears/concern about the spread of the disease.

verb

Make (suffering, deficiency, or a problem) less severe.

Примеры использования:

He couldn't prevent her pain, only alleviate it

verb

To make pain or problems less severe

Примеры использования:

The medicine did nothing to alleviate her discomfort.

verb

To make something bad such as pain or problems less severe

Примеры использования:

The drugs did nothing to alleviate her pain/suffering.

verb

Pacify or placate (someone) by acceding to their demands.

Примеры использования:

Amendments have been added to appease local pressure groups

verb

To prevent further disagreement or fighting by letting the opposing side have something that they want

Примеры использования:

He was a crucial ally who the country needed to appease., they were given a small pay rise but this…

verb

To get rid of unpleasant feelings or make them less strong

Примеры использования:

We try to appease our guilty consciences by making donations to charity., his resignation did littl…

verb

Make (an unpleasant feeling) less intense.

Примеры использования:

The letter assuaged the fears of most members

verb

To make unpleasant feelings less strong

Примеры использования:

The government has tried to assuage the public's fears.

phrasal verb

Break or cause to break into pieces

phrasal verb

(of a telephone conversation) to become impossible to understand because the connection is not strong enough

Примеры использования:

He was on the subway when he called and started to break up before i could answer., the company has…

phrasal verb

To divide, or to divide something, into smaller parts

Примеры использования:

The company has been broken up and sold off., manufacturing ceased at the factory when the original…

verb

Make or become more light.

Примеры использования:

Most of the country should brighten up later

verb

Make lighter or brighter

verb

To become or make something lighter

Примеры использования:

[ i ] the lights dimmed, then brightened., [ m ] betty painted the room white to brighten it up., […

phrase

To make something finish

Примеры использования:

He ran out of time and brought the interview to an end., we will have to use economic and military …

verb

Act against (something) in order to reduce its force or neutralize it.

Примеры использования:

Should we deliberately intervene in the climate system to counteract global warming?

verb

To reduce or remove the effect of something by producing an opposite effect

Примеры использования:

The tax must be adjusted upward to counteract inflation.

verb

To take action to reduce the influence of something that may be harmful

Примеры использования:

Spending on marketing and advertising has increased in order to counteract falling sales., these ne…

phrasal verb

Provide an excuse or alibi for someone so as to cover up guilt

phrasal verb

To provide an excuse for someone, or an explanation for something that has gone wrong

Примеры использования:

She would cover for her brothers when they came in late.

verb

Relieve (a person or animal) of the symptoms of a disease or condition.

Примеры использования:

He was cured of the disease

noun

A substance or treatment that cures a disease or condition.

Примеры использования:

The search for a cure for the common cold

noun

A parish priest in a french-speaking country.

Примеры использования:

The curé, after all, was an important figure in every village

verb

Discharge faeces from the body.

Примеры использования:

In this story, the first sago came from inside a man's body who defecated and the sago fell to the …

verb

To excrete the contents of the bowels

verb

To pass the contents of the bowels out of the body

verb

Make or become less.

Примеры использования:

The new law is expected to diminish the government's chances

verb

To reduce or be reduced in size or importance

Примеры использования:

[ i ] the threat of inflation is diminishing., [ t ] a single-payer system would diminish the burea…

verb

To reduce or be reduced in size, importance, or value

Примеры использования:

If consumers start losing confidence, it will diminish demand for household goods., investors can d…

verb

Make (a doubt, feeling, or belief) disappear.

Примеры использования:

The brightness of the day did nothing to dispel elaine's dejection

verb

To remove fears, doubts, or false ideas, usually by proving them wrong or unnecessary

Примеры использования:

We need to dispel the myths and establish real facts.

verb

To remove fears, doubts, and false ideas, usually by proving them wrong or unnecessary

Примеры использования:

I'd like to start the speech by dispelling a few rumours that have been spreading recently.

adjective

Lacking interest or excitement.

Примеры использования:

Your diet doesn't have to be dull and boring

verb

Make or become dull or less intense.

Примеры использования:

Time dulls the memory

adjective

Not interesting or exciting; boring

Примеры использования:

Many of the courtroom events were dull and routine., the lecture was dry, dull, and full of statist…

noun

Absence of difficulty or effort.

Примеры использования:

She gave up smoking with ease

verb

Make (something unpleasant or intense) less serious or severe.

Примеры использования:

A huge road-building programme to ease congestion

verb

Freedom from difficulty or hardship or effort

verb

(of a living organism or cell) separate and expel as waste (a substance, especially a product of metabolism).

Примеры использования:

Excess bicarbonate is excreted by the kidney

verb

To get rid of material such as solid waste or urine from the body

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Be excreted from most toxins are naturally excreted from the body.

phrase

To empty the body of urine or solid waste, usually using a toilet to do so

Примеры использования:

It's going to be a long drive, kids, so if you want to go to the toilet, do so now., i really need …

verb

Stop the continuous progress of (an activity or process).

Примеры использования:

The buzzer interrupted his thoughts

verb

To stop someone from speaking by saying or doing something, or to cause an activity or event to stop briefly

Примеры использования:

[ i ] please don’t interrupt until i’m finished., [ t ] the picnic was interrupted by a rain shower…

verb

To stop a person from speaking for a short period by something you say or do

Примеры использования:

She tried to explain what had happened but he kept interrupting her., i wish you'd stop interrupting.

verb

Make or become less; diminish.

Примеры использования:

The years have lessened the gap in age between us

verb

To become or make something smaller in amount or degree

Примеры использования:

[ t ] keeping your weight down can lessen the risk of heart disease.

verb

To make something smaller, less noticeable, etc., or to become smaller, less noticeable, etc.

Примеры использования:

Corporate executives are keen to embrace "green technology" in order to lessen their dependence on …

idiom

Grant exemption or release to

phrasal verb

Punish someone lightly or not at all for a misdemeanour or offence.

Примеры использования:

He was let off with a caution

phrasal verb

Cause a gun, firework, or bomb to fire or explode.

Примеры использования:

Thousands of fireworks were let off in the castle grounds at the stroke of midnight to mark the sta…

verb

Make or become lighter in weight, pressure, or severity.

Примеры использования:

Efforts to lighten the burden of regulation

verb

Make or become lighter or brighter.

Примеры использования:

The sky began to lighten in the east

verb

To make someone or become happier and less anxious

Примеры использования:

Being with friends lightened her mood., he lost 30 pounds to lighten the burden on his knee., to li…

verb

Make (something bad) less severe, serious, or painful.

Примеры использования:

Drainage schemes have helped to mitigate this problem

verb

To make something less severe or less unpleasant

Примеры использования:

Getting a lot of sleep and drinking plenty of fluids can mitigate the effects of the flu.

verb

To make something less harmful, unpleasant, or bad

Примеры использования:

Technologies that can mitigate global warming, mitigate damage/risk the company was criticized for …

verb

Make (a disease or its symptoms) less severe without removing the cause.

Примеры использования:

Treatment works by palliating symptoms

verb

To reduce the bad effects of something

Примеры использования:

They tried to palliate the hardship of their lives., the drugs palliate pain but have no effect on …

verb

Keep (something) from happening.

Примеры использования:

Action must be taken to prevent further accidents

verb

To stop something from happening or someone from doing something

Примеры использования:

The police tried to prevent him from leaving., can this type of accident be prevented?, fortunately…

verb

Insert punctuation marks in (text).

Примеры использования:

They should be shown how to set out and punctuate direct speech

verb

Make smaller or less in amount, degree, or size.

Примеры использования:

The need for businesses to reduce costs

verb

Make smaller

verb

To make something less in size, amount, degree, importance, or price

Примеры использования:

A low-fat diet can reduce the risk of heart disease., grunn employs 17,900 people, but that number …

verb

Take the place of.

Примеры использования:

Ian's smile was replaced by a frown

verb

To take the place of something or put in the place of something or someone else

Примеры использования:

We replaced our old air conditioners., the ailing actress was replaced by her understudy., after du…

verb

To take the place of something or someone else

Примеры использования:

The single farm payment will replace all subsidy schemes in january., four people have left the da'…

verb

Make or become soft or softer.

Примеры использования:

Plant extracts to soften and moisturize the skin

verb

To become gentle, or to make something less forceful or loud

Примеры использования:

[ t ] he made an effort to soften his tone., congress will move to soften the law’s impact., [ i ] …

verb

If demand, a price, a market, etc. softens, it stops increasing or it goes down

Примеры использования:

Share prices softened with continued worries about the country's economic recovery., although deman…

verb

Gently calm (a person or their feelings).

Примеры использования:

A shot of brandy might soothe his nerves

verb

To cause someone to be less upset or angry, or to cause something to hurt less

Примеры использования:

I picked up the crying child and tried to soothe her., a soothing ointment for sunburn

verb

(of an event, action, or process) come to an end; cease to happen.

Примеры использования:

His laughter stopped as quickly as it had begun

noun

A cessation of movement or operation.

Примеры использования:

All business came to a stop

verb

Have an end, in a temporal, spatial, or quantitative sense

verb

Make or become sweet or sweeter, especially in taste.

Примеры использования:

A cup of coffee sweetened with saccharin

verb

To make something taste sweet

Примеры использования:

Sweeten the nut bread by adding dried fruit., infml if they want to settle the strike, the owners s…

verb

To make something more attractive and acceptable

Примеры использования:

Sweeten the deal/bid/offer, the city had tried to sweeten the deal with a $140 million package., th…

phrase

To be used instead of someone or something

Примеры использования:

These portable machines can take the place of your desktop pc., virtual reality should never take t…

verb

Discharge urine; pass water.

Примеры использования:

Encourage your child to relax when she urinates so no urine is left in the bladder.

verb

To excrete urine

verb

Differ in size, amount, degree, or nature from something else of the same general class.

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The properties vary in price