Relieving has 3 syllables and the stress is on the second syllable.
| # | Sentence | |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | He contributed much money to relieving the poor. | |
| 2. | 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. | I'm relieving you of duty. | |
| 4. | 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. | Grammar being the art of relieving the difficulties of a language, the lever must not be heavier than the load it lifts. |