RELIEVED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does relieved mean? 

• RELIEVED (adjective)
  The adjective RELIEVED has 2 senses:

1. (of pain or sorrow) made easier to bear

2. extending out above or beyond a surface or boundary

  Familiarity information: RELIEVED used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RELIEVED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

(of pain or sorrow) made easier to bear

Synonyms:

alleviated; eased; relieved

Similar:

mitigated (made less severe or intense)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Extending out above or beyond a surface or boundary

Synonyms:

jutting; projected; projecting; protruding; relieved; sticking; sticking out

Context example:

a pile of boards sticking over the end of his truck

Similar:

protrusive (thrusting outward)

 Context examples 

I could offer no explanation of them, but their truth in part relieved the burden of my mysterious woe.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

"I'll ask Laurie. He will go," said Jo, looking relieved as the idea occurred to her.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

First he recognized the doctor with an unmistakable frown; then his glance fell upon me, and he looked relieved.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

But turning quickly upon him, and seeing a laugh in his eyes, I answered, much relieved: Ah, Steerforth! It's well for you to joke about the poor!

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

I was satisfied with his present condition, and directed him to be relieved.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

He turned away; and Catherine was shocked to find how much her spirits were relieved by the separation.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

The restriction on licensing is relieved when CDK falls off at the completion of mitosis to allow a new round of replication.

(CDK Regulation Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)

In one point, her feelings were relieved by this knowledge of Mr Elliot.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

Her companions were relieved, but there was no good for her.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

He had left her, promising to return; he neither returned, nor wrote, nor relieved her.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)