Index of English words, starting with "re"

(1) - Relieve (v. t.) To ease of any imposition, burden, wrong, or oppression, by judicial or legislative interposition, as by the removal of a grievance, by indemnification for losses, or the like; to right.
(2) - Relieve (v. t.) To release from a post, station, or duty; to put another in place of, or to take the place of, in the bearing of any burden, or discharge of any duty.
(3) - Relieve (v. t.) To free, wholly or partly, from any burden, trial, evil, distress, or the like; to give ease, comfort, or consolation to; to give aid, help, or succor to; to support, strengthen, or deliver; as, to relieve a besieged town.
(4) - Relieve (v. t.) To raise or remove, as anything which depresses, weighs down, or crushes; to render less burdensome or afflicting; to alleviate; to abate; to mitigate; to lessen; as, to relieve pain; to relieve the wants of the poor.
(5) - Relieve (v. t.) To raise up something in; to introduce a contrast or variety into; to remove the monotony or sameness of.
(6) - Relieve (v. t.) To cause to seem to rise; to put in relief; to give prominence or conspicuousness to; to set off by contrast.
(7) - Relieve (v. t.) To lift up; to raise again, as one who has fallen; to cause to rise.

(1) - Reliever (n.) One who, or that which, relieves.

(1) - Relievo (n.) See Relief, n., 5.

(1) - Religion (n.) Strictness of fidelity in conforming to any practice, as if it were an enjoined rule of conduct.
(2) - Religion (n.) A monastic or religious order subject to a regulated mode of life; the religious state; as, to enter religion.
(3) - Religion (n.) Specifically, conformity in faith and life to the precepts inculcated in the Bible, respecting the conduct of life and duty toward God and man; the Christian faith and practice.
(4) - Religion (n.) The outward act or form by which men indicate their recognition of the existence of a god or of gods having power over their destiny, to whom obedience, service, and honor are due; the feeling or expression of human love, fear, or awe of some superhuman and overruling power, whether by profession of belief, by observance of rites and ceremonies, or by the conduct of life; a system of faith and worship; a manifestation of piety; as, ethical religions; monotheistic religions; natural religion; revealed religion; the religion of the Jews; the religion of idol worshipers.

(1) - Religioner (n.) A religionist.