Relieve vs. Spell

Relieveverb

To ease (a person, person's thoughts etc.) from mental distress; to stop (someone) feeling anxious or worried, to alleviate the distress of.

Relieveverb

To ease (someone, a part of the body etc.) or give relief from physical pain or discomfort.

Relieveverb

To alleviate (pain, distress, mental discomfort etc.).

Relieveverb

To provide comfort or assistance to (someone in need, especially in poverty).

Relieveverb

(obsolete) To lift up; to raise again.

Relieveverb

To raise (someone) out of danger or from (a specified difficulty etc.).

Relieveverb

(legal) To free (someone) from debt or legal obligations; to give legal relief to.

Relieveverb

To bring military help to (a besieged town); to lift the siege on.

Relieveverb

To release (someone) from or of a difficulty, unwanted task, responsibility etc.

Relieveverb

To free (someone) from their post, task etc. by taking their place.

Relieveverb

To make (something) stand out; to make prominent, bring into relief.

Relieveverb

(reflexive) To go to the toilet; to defecate or urinate.

Relieveverb

To lift up; to raise again, as one who has fallen; to cause to rise.

Relieveverb

To cause to seem to rise; to put in relief; to give prominence or conspicuousness to; to set off by contrast.

Relieveverb

To raise up something in; to introduce a contrast or variety into; to remove the monotony or sameness of.

Relieveverb

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.

Relieveverb

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.

Relieveverb

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.

Relieveverb

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.

Relieveverb

provide physical relief, as from pain;

Relieveverb

free someone temporarily from his or her obligations

Relieveverb

grant relief or an exemption from a rule or requirement to;

Relieveverb

lessen the intensity of or calm;

Relieveverb

save from ruin, destruction, or harm

Relieveverb

relieve oneself of troubling information

Relieveverb

alleviate or remove;

Relieveverb

provide relief for;

Relieveverb

free from a burden, evil, or distress

Relieveverb

take by stealing;

Relieveverb

grant exemption or release to;

Spellnoun

Words or a formula supposed to have magical powers.

Spellnoun

A magical effect or influence induced by an incantation or formula.

Spellnoun

(obsolete) Speech, discourse.

Spellnoun

A shift (of work); (rare) a set of workers responsible for a specific turn of labour.

Spellnoun

(informal) A definite period (of work or other activity).

Spellnoun

(colloquial) An indefinite period of time (usually with a qualifier); by extension, a relatively short distance.

Spellnoun

A period of rest; time off.

Spellnoun

A period of illness, or sudden interval of bad spirits, disease etc.

Spellnoun

(cricket) An uninterrupted series of alternate overs bowled by a single bowler.

Spellnoun

(dialectal) A splinter, usually of wood; a spelk.

Spellnoun

The wooden bat in the game of trap ball, or knurr and spell.

Spellverb

To put under the influence of a spell; to affect by a spell; to bewitch; to fascinate; to charm.

Spellverb

(obsolete) To speak, to declaim.

Spellverb

(obsolete) To tell; to relate; to teach.

Spellverb

To read (something) as though letter by letter; to peruse slowly or with effort.

Spellverb

To write or say the letters that form a word or part of a word.

Spellverb

(intransitive) To be able to write or say the letters that form words.

Spellverb

(transitive) Of letters: to compose (a word).

Spellverb

To indicate that (some event) will occur.

Spellverb

To clarify; to explain in detail.

Spellverb

To constitute; to measure.

Spellverb

(transitive) To work in place of (someone).

Spellverb

(transitive) To rest (someone or something), to give someone or something a rest or break.

Spellverb

To rest from work for a time.

Spellnoun

A spelk, or splinter.

Spellnoun

The relief of one person by another in any piece of work or watching; also, a turn at work which is carried on by one person or gang relieving another; as, a spell at the pumps; a spell at the masthead.

Spellnoun

The time during which one person or gang works until relieved; hence, any relatively short period of time, whether a few hours, days, or weeks.

Spellnoun

One of two or more persons or gangs who work by spells.

Spellnoun

A gratuitous helping forward of another's work; as, a logging spell.

Spellnoun

A story; a tale.

Spellnoun

A stanza, verse, or phrase supposed to be endowed with magical power; an incantation; hence, any charm.

Spellverb

To supply the place of for a time; to take the turn of, at work; to relieve; as, to spell the helmsman.

Spellverb

To tell; to relate; to teach.

Spellverb

To put under the influence of a spell; to affect by a spell; to bewitch; to fascinate; to charm.

Spellverb

To constitute; to measure.

Spellverb

To tell or name in their proper order letters of, as a word; to write or print in order the letters of, esp. the proper letters; to form, as words, by correct orthography.

Spellverb

To discover by characters or marks; to read with difficulty; - usually with out; as, to spell out the sense of an author; to spell out a verse in the Bible.

Spellverb

To form words with letters, esp. with the proper letters, either orally or in writing.

Spellverb

To study by noting characters; to gain knowledge or learn the meaning of anything, by study.

Spellnoun

a psychological state induced by (or as if induced by) a magical incantation

Spellnoun

a time for working (after which you will be relieved by someone else);

Spellnoun

a period of indeterminate length (usually short) marked by some action or condition;

Spellnoun

a verbal formula believed to have magical force;

Spellverb

recite the letters of or give the spelling of;

Spellverb

indicate or signify;

Spellverb

write or name the letters that comprise the conventionally accepted form of (a word or part of a word);

Spellverb

place under a spell