| relief |
| 1. n. The removal of stress or discomfort. | |
| I sighed with relief when I found out that my daughter hadn't got lost, but was waiting for me at home. | |
| 2. n. The feeling associated with the removal of stress or discomfort. | |
| 3. n. The person who takes over a shift for another. | |
| Officer Schmidt can finally go home because his relief has arrived. | |
| 4. n. Aid or assistance offered in time of need. | |
| 5. n. (legal) Court-ordered compensation, aid, or protection, a redress. | |
| 6. n. A lowering of a tax through special provisions; short for tax relief. | |
| 7. n. A type of sculpture or other artwork in which shapes or figures protrude from a flat background. | |
| 8. n. The apparent difference in elevation in the surface of a painting or drawing made noticeable by a variation in light or color. | |
| 9. n. The difference of elevations on a surface. | |
| the relief on that part of the Earth's surface | |
| 10. adj. (of a surface) Characterized by surface inequalities. | |
| 11. adj. Of or used in letterpress. | |
| from |
| 1. prep. With the source or provenance of or at. | |
| This wine comes from France. | |
| I got a letter from my brother. | |
| 2. prep. With the origin, starting point or initial reference of or at. | |
| He had books piled from floor to ceiling. | |
| He left yesterday from Chicago. | |
| Face away from the wall! | |
| 3. prep. (mathematics, now uncommon) Denoting a subtraction operation. | |
| 20 from 31 leaves 11. | |
| 4. prep. With the separation, exclusion or differentiation of. | |
| An umbrella protects from the sun. | |
| He knows right from wrong. | |
| pain |
| 1. n. An ache or bodily suffering, or an instance of this; an unpleasant sensation, resulting from a derangement of functions, disease, or injury by violence; hurt. | |
| The greatest difficulty lies in treating patients with chronic pain. | |
| I had to stop running when I started getting pains in my feet. | |
| 2. n. The condition or fact of suffering or anguish especially mental, as opposed to pleasure; torment; distress | |
| In the final analysis, pain is a fact of life. | |
| The pain of departure was difficult to bear. | |
| 3. n. (from pain in the neck) An annoying person or thing. | |
| Your mother is a right pain. | |
| 4. n. (obsolete) Suffering inflicted as punishment or penalty. | |
| You may not leave this room on pain of death. | |
| 5. n. Labour; effort; pains. | |
| 6. v. To hurt; to put to bodily uneasiness or anguish; to afflict with uneasy sensations of any degree of intensity; to torment; to torture. | |
| The wound pained him. | |
| 7. v. To render uneasy in mind; to disquiet; to distress; to grieve. | |
| It pains me to say that I must let you go. | |
| 8. v. (transitive, obsolete) To inflict suffering upon as a penalty; to punish. | |
| 9. n. (obsolete, cooking) Any of various breads stuffed with a filling. | |
| gammon pain; Spanish pain | |
| etc |
| 1. adv. alternative form of etc. | |
