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relieved

adjectiveverbcommon in dialogue

  • //ɹɪˈliːvd//

Experiencing or exhibiting relief; freed from stress or discomfort.

adjective

  1. 1

    Experiencing or exhibiting relief; freed from stress or discomfort.

    She was extremely relieved when the lesson finished.

    In a single moment Montenegro and their supporters were given fresh impetus and encouragement. Beciraj tested Hart with a low shot before teenager Phil Jones, on his England debut, suffered an anxious moment when Stevan Jovetic went down under his challenge, leaving the youngster clearly relieved to see referee Stark wave away Montenegro's appeals.

verb

  1. 1

    Also a form of relievesimple past and past participle of relieve

Forms

comparative
more relieved
superlative
most relieved
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).