What part of speech is relieving?

Relieving can be categorized as a verb.

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Parts of speech

  • 1. relieving is a verb, gerund of relieve (infinitive).

Inflections

Verb

What does relieving mean?

Definitions

Verb

relieve - provide physical relief, as from pain; "This pill will relieve your headaches"
relieve - alleviate or remove (pressure or stress) or make less oppressive; "relieve the pressure and the stress"; "lighten the burden of caring for her elderly parents"
relieve - take by stealing; "The thief relieved me of $100"
relieve - free from a burden, evil, or distress
relieve - save from ruin, destruction, or harm
relieve - grant relief or an exemption from a rule or requirement to; "She exempted me from the exam"
relieve - lessen the intensity of or calm; "The news eased my conscience"; "still the fears"
relieve - free someone temporarily from his or her obligations
relieve - provide relief for; "remedy his illness"
relieve - grant exemption or release to; "Please excuse me from this class"
relieve - relieve oneself of troubling information

Examples of relieving

#   Sentence  
1. verb He contributed much money to relieving the poor.
2. verb If one were to use the pronoun "one" it would go a long way towards relieving the inconvenience of not having a gender-neutral pronoun in English.
3. verb I'm relieving you of duty.
4. verb It’s quite obvious that the purport of these misanthropic theories consists in slandering the working masses, relieving the imperialism from the responsibility for the bloody wars it provokes, and imposing the thought that wars are endless and are allegedly caused by aggresive tensencies in the human nature.
5. verb Grammar being the art of relieving the difficulties of a language, the lever must not be heavier than the load it lifts.
6. verb This pill will relieve your headaches.
7. verb Relieve the pressure and the stress.
8. verb Do you have anything to relieve a headache?
9. verb The doctor gave him some drugs to relieve the pain.
10. verb No words can relieve her deep sorrow.
11. verb If you stop and relax, this will relieve the tension and stress in your shoulders.
12. verb Let me relieve you of that case. It looks heavy.
13. verb Let me relieve you of that heavy parcel.
14. verb Let me relieve you of that case.
15. verb Let me relieve you of your suitcase.
Sentence  
verb
He contributed much money to relieving the poor.
If one were to use the pronoun "one" it would go a long way towards relieving the inconvenience of not having a gender-neutral pronoun in English.
I'm relieving you of duty.
It’s quite obvious that the purport of these misanthropic theories consists in slandering the working masses, relieving the imperialism from the responsibility for the bloody wars it provokes, and imposing the thought that wars are endless and are allegedly caused by aggresive tensencies in the human nature.
Grammar being the art of relieving the difficulties of a language, the lever must not be heavier than the load it lifts.
This pill will relieve your headaches.
Relieve the pressure and the stress.
Do you have anything to relieve a headache?
The doctor gave him some drugs to relieve the pain.
No words can relieve her deep sorrow.
If you stop and relax, this will relieve the tension and stress in your shoulders.
Let me relieve you of that case. It looks heavy.
Let me relieve you of that heavy parcel.
Let me relieve you of that case.
Let me relieve you of your suitcase.

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