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# relieved

«relieved» in Mova's school dictionary: **feeling happy and calm because something bad did not…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

adjective (relieved, more relieved); verb form (past of relieve)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Relieved means feeling happy and calm because something bad did not happen or a worry is over. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/relieved/#m1)

2) Relieved is the past form of relieve: to make pain or a problem less, or to take over someone's job so they can rest. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/relieved/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In stories «relieved» shows the end of tension: the lost dog is found, the test went well. Feelings vocabulary in well-being lessons. Health: medicine relieved the pain. Phrases: relieved to hear, relieved that, breathe a sigh of relief, feel relieved.

### examples

- I was relieved when my cat came home. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/relieved/#x1)
- She was relieved to hear she had passed. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/relieved/#x2)
- We were relieved that nobody was hurt. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/relieved/#x3)
- The medicine relieved his headache. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/relieved/#x4)
- The guard was relieved by another soldier at midnight. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/relieved/#x5)
- Mum looked relieved when the plane landed. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/relieved/#x6)
- You may be sure they were very relieved to find Peter. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/relieved/#x7)

### note

Spelling: i before e — re-lie-ved. Noun: relief. «Relieved» is a feeling word, like happy or worried, but it means the end of a worry.

### In the corpora

- [The King, relieved, asks the Queen to question the next witness, as it makes his forehead ache.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/22-alice-who-stole-the-tarts-2/12/)
- ["Relieved of his duties" means fired, in official language.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/21-work-firing-and-the-economy/16/)
- [People sometimes cry when they are very happy, proud or relieved.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/14-faces-and-voices/14/)
- [Ollie was embarrassed but relieved.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/445-the-older-kids-trade/2/)
- [Mia was scared, then relieved — and it was not her fault at all.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/447-the-fake-friend-online/7/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «relieved» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/relieved/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.