relieve
verb (used with object)
to ease or alleviate (pain, distress, anxiety, need, etc.).
have been relieving
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present perfect progressiveof relieve.present perfect progressive
Used to describe an action that began in the past, has continued continuously, and is still in progress.
Example Sentences
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Sarah Albee details how people have been relieving themselves for thousands of years.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 13, 2010
For thousands of years the most idle dreamers have been relieving each other, meditating on systems, diving into concealed ways, inventing hypothesis suitable to develope this important enigma.
From The System of Nature, Volume 2 by Paul Henri Thiry, baron d'Holbach
