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relieve from

VERB

spare

Synonyms

STRONGEST

excuse exempt leave pardon refrain from

STRONG

absolve discharge dispense forbear pity release relent spring

WEAK

bail out be lenient be merciful get off the hook get out of hock give a break give quarter to go easy on let go let off privilege from pull out of the fire save bacon save from save neck

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The second, he said, is for the judiciary to take legal steps against Salameh and relieve from from his post.

From Seattle Times • May 25, 2023

"You instruct, inspect, reprimand and relieve from duty," explains O'Leary, whose World War II stint as an Air Force colonel has given him a fondness for military metaphor.

From Time Magazine Archive

Redress, rē-dres′, v.t. to set right: to relieve from: to make amends to: to compensate: to dress again.—n. relief: reparation.—n.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R) by Various

Disgavel, dis-gav′el, v.t. to relieve from the tenure of gavelkind.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various

The one set of duties is quite as unfashionable as the other, and money is held to relieve from the service of love as entirely as it relieves from the need of labor.

From Modern Women and What is Said of Them A Reprint of A Series of Articles in the Saturday Review (1868) by Calhoun, Lucia Gilbert

relieve from

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