relieve of
phrasal verb
relieved of; relieving of; relieves of
1
formal
: to take (something that is difficult or unpleasant) from (someone)
She signed a contract that relieved him of all responsibility regarding the business.
The law relieves you of any liability.
2
informal + humorous
: to steal (something) from (someone)
Someone relieved him of his wallet.
3
: to remove (someone who has done something wrong) from (a post, duty, job, etc.)
The general was relieved of his command.
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Probe began shortly after 2021 dismissal Velazquez, who became chief in 2012, was relieved of duty by the city’s new Mayor Esteban Bovo shortly after his November 2021 election victory.
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Charles Rabin, Miami Herald, 4 June 2025
He was relieved of duty without pay eight months after the guilty plea, but has still been officially on the department’s employment rolls.
—Mike Hendricks, Kansas City Star, 8 May 2025
With this one invention, millions of secretaries would soon be relieved of the drudgery of constant retyping, and the business office would have a boon in productivity almost as profound as the one the typewriter itself had ushered in long before.
—Pat Butler, Sportico.com, 16 May 2025
The group’s leaders can now claim to have gone head-to-head with a superpower and won and be relieved of the pressure the U.S. bombing was putting on them.
—April Longley Alley, Foreign Affairs, 9 May 2025
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Charles Rabin, Miami Herald, 4 June 2025
He was relieved of duty without pay eight months after the guilty plea, but has still been officially on the department’s employment rolls.
—Mike Hendricks, Kansas City Star, 8 May 2025
With this one invention, millions of secretaries would soon be relieved of the drudgery of constant retyping, and the business office would have a boon in productivity almost as profound as the one the typewriter itself had ushered in long before.
—Pat Butler, Sportico.com, 16 May 2025
The group’s leaders can now claim to have gone head-to-head with a superpower and won and be relieved of the pressure the U.S. bombing was putting on them.
—April Longley Alley, Foreign Affairs, 9 May 2025
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“Relieve of.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/relieve%20of. Accessed 13 Jun. 2025.
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