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relief

the act of freeing a city or town that has been besieged; "he asked for troops for the relief of Atlanta"

aid for the aged or indigent or handicapped; "he has been on relief for many years"

assistance in time of difficulty; "the contributions provided some relief for the victims"

sculpture consisting of shapes carved on a surface so as to stand out from the surrounding background

the feeling that comes when something burdensome is removed or reduced; "as he heard the news he was suddenly flooded with relief"

(law) redress awarded by a court; "was the relief supposed to be protection from future harm or compensation for past injury?"

the condition of being comfortable or relieved (especially after being relieved of distress); "he enjoyed his relief from responsibility"; "getting it off his conscience gave him some ease"

Synonyms:

• ADC,
• CYSP sculpture,
• Medicaid,
• Medicare,
• abatement,
• agent,
• aid,
• aid and comfort,
• alimony,
• allayment,
• alleviation,
• allotment,
• allowance,
• alterative,
• alternate,
• alternative,
• anaglyph,
• anaglyptics,
• anaglyptography,
• analeptic,
• analogy,
• annuity,
• appeasement,
• architectural sculpture,
• assist,
• assistance,
• assuagement,
• assurance,
• auxiliaries,
• backup,
• balm,
• balsam,
• bas-relief,
• bellying,
• benefit,
• benevolence,
• boldness,
• bone-carving,
• boss,
• bounty,
• bout,
• break,
• bulging,
• cameo,
• cameo glass,
• casting,
• cavo-rilievo,
• ceroplastics,
• chance,
• change,
• changeling,
• chasing,
• clay sculpture,
• clemency,
• coffee break,
• comfort,
• commiseration,
• comparison,
• compassion,
• condolence,
• configuration,
• consolation,
• contour,
• contrast,
• copy,
• corrective,
• counterfeit,
• cradle-to-grave security,
• cure,
• cut glass,
• decorative sculpture,
• delineation,
• deliverance,
• depletion allowance,
• deputy,
• disburdening,
• disencumberment,
• dole,
• double,
• downtime,
• dummy,
• earth art,
• ease,
• easement,
• easing,
• elevation,
• embossing,
• embossment,
• eminence,
• encouragement,
• engraving,
• equal,
• equivalent,
• ersatz,
• exchange,
• excrescence,
• excrescency,
• extrusion,
• fake,
• favor,
• features,
• feeling,
• fellowship,
• figuration,
• figure,
• fill-in,
• financial assistance,
• forbearance,
• forgiveness,
• founding,
• framework,
• garden sculpture,
• gem-cutting,
• gestalt,
• ghost,
• ghostwriter,
• gibbosity,
• gibbousness,
• glass sculpture,
• glyph,
• glyptic,
• glyptograph,
• go,
• good offices,
• grace,
• grant,
• grant-in-aid,
• guaranteed annual income,
• guaranteed income,
• half time,
• half-time intermission,
• hand,
• healing agent,
• healing quality,
• health insurance,
• help,
• high relief,
• holiday,
• humanity,
• imitation,
• inning,
• innings,
• intaglio,
• intaglio rilevato,
• intaglio rilievo,
• interim,
• interlude,
• intermezzo,
• intermission,
• intermittence,
• interregnum,
• interruption,
• interval,
• ivory-carving,
• kindness,
• leniency,
• letup,
• liberation,
• lift,
• lightening,
• lineaments,
• lines,
• locum tenens,
• lost-wax process,
• low relief,
• lull,
• main features,
• makeshift,
• mask,
• medal,
• medallion,
• mercy,
• metal sculpture,
• metaphor,
• metonymy,
• ministration,
• ministry,
• mitigation,
• modeling,
• molding,
• mollification,
• monumental sculpture,
• next best thing,
• off-time,
• office,
• offices,
• old-age assistance,
• old-age insurance,
• opportunity,
• outline,
• paper sculpture,
• pardon,
• pathos,
• pause,
• pecuniary aid,
• pension,
• personnel,
• phony,
• pinch hitter,
• pity,
• place,
• plaquette,
• plaster casting,
• plastic art,
• plateau,
• point of repose,
• portrait sculpture,
• prescription,
• price support,
• profile,
• projection,
• prominence,
• protection,
• protrusion,
• protuberance,
• protuberancy,
• proxy,
• public assistance,
• public welfare,
• quarter,
• quiet spell,
• reassurance,
• receipt,
• recess,
• recipe,
• redress,
• reinforcements,
• release,
• relief-carving,
• relievo,
• remedial measure,
• remedy,
• remission,
• replacement,
• representative,
• reprieve,
• rescue,
• reserve forces,
• reserves,
• respite,
• resting point,
• restorative,
• retirement benefits,
• ringer,
• round,
• ruth,
• salience,
• salient,
• say,
• scholarship,
• sculptor,
• sculpture,
• sculptured glass,
• sculpturing,
• second string,
• secondary,
• self-pity,
• service,
• shapes,
• shell-carving,
• shred of comfort,
• sickness insurance,
• sign,
• silhouette,
• skeleton,
• social insurance,
• social security,
• social welfare,
• socialized medicine,
• softening,
• solace,
• solacement,
• sovereign remedy,
• spares,
• specific,
• specific remedy,
• spell,
• stand-in,
• state medicine,
• statuary,
• stipend,
• stone sculpture,
• stonecutting,
• sub,
• subsidization,
• subsidy,
• substituent,
• substitute,
• substitution,
• subvention,
• succedaneum,
• succor,
• superseder,
• supplanter,
• support,
• surrogate,
• symbol,
• sympathy,
• synecdoche,
• tax benefit,
• therapy,
• third string,
• time,
• time at bat,
• time off,
• time out,
• token,
• tournure,
• tuberosity,
• tuberousness,
• turn,
• unballasting,
• unburdening,
• understudy,
• unemployment compensation,
• unemployment insurance,
• unfreighting,
• unlading,
• unloading,
• unsaddling,
• untaxing,
• utility player,
• vacation,
• vicar,
• vice-president,
• vice-regent,
• welfare,
• welfare aid,
• welfare capitalism,
• welfare payments,
• welfare state,
• welfare statism,
• welfarism,
• whack,
• whittling,
• wire sculpture,
• womb-to-tomb security,
• wood carving,
• xyloglyphy