Dictionary entry

Remaining

Pronunciation: /rɪˈmeɪnɪŋ/

Pronunciation

/rɪˈmeɪnɪŋ/

Myanmar Meaning

(adj) ဆက်လက်တည်ရှိ (v[ing]) ကျန်ရှိနေ

Definition

relieve /r'li:v/ v ၁။ သက္သာရာရေစသည္။ drugs to relieve the pain/discomfort ❍ relieve suffering/hardship among refugees. ၂။ အသက္႐ႈေပါက္ရေစသည္။ efforts to relieve famine in Africa ❍ relieve the pressure on working mothers ❍ The bypass relieves traffic jams in the city centre. ၃။ အေျပာင္းအလဲရိွေစမႈ။ အရႊန္းအေသာေဖာက္မႈ။ relieve the tedium/boredom/monotony of waiting ❍ Not a single tree relieved the flatness of the plain. ၄။ လူစားဝင္ေပးသည္၊ ။ တာဝန္လဲေပးသည္။ relieve a sentry/workmate/driver ❍ You'll be relieved at six o'clock. ၅။ ရန္သူ႕အရံ ျဖဳတ္ေပးသည္။ ၆။ ~ oneself ( euph ) အေပါ့သြား သည္။ အခင္းႀကီး၊ အခင္းငယ္သြားသည္။ ❏ relieved adj စိတ္သက္သာရာရသည့္။ စိတ္ေအးရသည့္။ a relieved smile/look/expression ❍ We were very relieved to hear you were safe. ❏ relieve sb of sth [ PHRV ] ၁။ ( often joc ) ကူသယ္ေပး သည္။ မ သြားသည္။ Let me relieve you of your coat and hat. ❍ ( ironic ) The thief relieved him of (ie stole) his wallet. ၂။ ( fml ) ဝင္ကူေပးသည္။ The new secretary will relieve us of some of the paperwork. ၃။ တာဝန္ရပ္စဲသည္။ အလုပ္ျဖဳတ္သည္။ relieve Mr Brett of his post as manager ❍ The general was relieved of his command/duties.

Examples

  1. Use a cooling gel to relieve the discomfort of sunburn.
  2. Your headaches can easily be relieved by regular aspirin.
  3. Reading helped to relieve the boredom while he was ill.
  4. The scheme is designed to relieve traffic congestion on the main routes into the city.
  5. The night guards arrived to relieve the daytime crew.