relieve
v.v. to make a bad feeling like pain, stress, or worry less strong. You can also use it when you take over a job or duty from someone so they can rest.
v. to alleviate or reduce the intensity of pain, distress, or anxiety; to release someone from a duty or station by taking their place.
This medicine will help relieve your headache.
The night shift security guard waited at the gate for his colleague to arrive and relieve him.
International aid agencies are working tirelessly to relieve the suffering of refugees by providing clean water, medical supplies, and temporary shelter.
From Late Middle English releven, from Old French relever, specifically from the conjugated forms such as (jeo) relieve (“I lift up”), and its source, Latin relevo (“to lift up, lighten, relieve, alleviate”), combined form of re- (“back”) + levo (“to lift”). Doublet of relevate. Compare levant, levity, etc.
The verb is transitive. When used in the context of duties, it often takes the preposition 'of' ('to relieve someone of their duties').
The medicine relieved from my pain.The medicine relieved my pain.When 'relieve' means to reduce pain or stress, it is a transitive verb and takes a direct object without a preposition.