relieve sb of sth

Examples of relieve

relieve
Besides, poverty may diminish his importance in the eyes of his parishioners, especially if he cannot relieve them in their distress.
The safety of this method, its efficiency to relieve the valve obstruction are established.
The nominal rate of tax fluctuated between 1s and 4s in the early eighteenth century, as governments tried to relieve the burden in peace time.
In the setting of cancer, physical distress needs to be relieved before psychological or existential suffering can be attended to.
This approach relieves the problems existing in a bottom-up approach and those in a top-down approach.
The first three months of 1842 alone saw them relieving over 10,000 casuals, at a cost of nearly £2,000.
Indeed, given a physician's obligation to relieve a patient's pain, such acts are at times obligatory.
The politics of the poor rate implied the exclusion of poor strangers in the interests of relieving the ancient settled poor.
For instance, when physicians prepare to disconnect a ventilator, they often administer pain relieving medications to the patient in amounts that may hasten death.
The carnival erased social conventions by rendering them meaningless, and this 'decontextualization' relieved individuals from responsibility for their actions.
The left lateral position can improve fetal blood -ow by relieving aortocaval compression.
By contrast, the political ambivalence between relieving distress and controlling threats and inefficiency has persisted throughout.
The reason they would be motivated to do this is that such speculation could relieve their psychological distress.
However, the extent to which these nutrients limit crop yields, and the role organic inputs may play in relieving them, are poorly documented.
Its reticence coincided with the introduction of a government bill to relieve agricultural distress through the cultivation of urban fringe wastelands.
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