relief

• agent
• aid
• alleviation
• alternate
• apology
• appeasement
• assignee
• assistance
• assistant
• assuagement
• assurance
• attorney
• backup
• calming
• cheer
• comfort
• commiseration
• commissary
• consolation
• contentment
• cover
• decrease
• delegate
• deputy
• designated hitter
• diminishment
• ease
• empathy
• encouragement
• envoy
• factor
• fill-in
• gladness
• happiness
• help
• inspiration
• locum tenens
• makeshift
• mitigation
• moderation
• mollification
• pinch hitter
• procurator
• proxy
• reassurance
• release
• reliever
• rep
• replacement
• representative
• reserve
• salving
• second
• solace
• soothing
• stand-in
• stopgap
• sub
• substitute
• successor
• succor
• superseder
• surrogate
• sympathy
• understudy
• uplift

• ache
• agony
• anguish
• discomfort
• distress
• heartache
• heartbreak
• misery
• pain
• pang
• prick
• smart
• sting
• stitch
• suffering
• throe
• tingle
• torment
• torture
• twinge
• unrest

• noun
  1. The removal of stress or discomfort.
  2. The feeling associated with the removal of stress or discomfort.
  3. Release from a post or duty, as when replaced by another.
  4. The person who takes over a shift for another.
  5. Aid or assistance offered in time of need.
  6. Court-ordered compensation, aid, or protection, a redress.
  7. A lowering of a tax through special provisions; tax relief.
  8. A certain fine or composition paid by the heir of a tenant upon the death of the ancestor.
  9. A type of sculpture or other artwork in which shapes or figures protrude from a flat background.
  10. The apparent difference in elevation in the surface of a painting or drawing made noticeable by a variation in light or color.
  11. The difference of elevations on a surface.
  12. The supposed projection of a charge from the surface of a field, indicated by shading on the sinister and lower sides.
• adjective
  1. (of a surface) Characterized by surface inequalities.
  2. Of or used in letterpress.

• She felt a great sense of relief after finishing her exams.
• The medication provided immediate relief from the pain.
• Volunteers brought food and water to the flood victims as relief.
• His shoulders relaxed with relief when he heard the good news.
• Laughter can be a form of emotional relief in stressful situations.

abetment

backing

ease

facilitation

factor

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