Relieve in example sentence

As its name suggests, obsessive compulsive disorder has two aspects: the intrusive thoughts, images, or impulses, known as obsessions, and the behavioral compulsions people engage in to relieve the anxiety the obsessions cause.

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I gave her medications to relieve the strain on her heart.

And they have to do that even if the net blocks the breeze, even if they might have to get up in the middle of the night and relieve themselves, even if they might have to move all their furnishings to put this thing up, even if, you know, they might live in a round hut in which it's difficult to string up a square net.

How do you unlearn the learned paralysis, so you can relieve him of this excruciating, clenching spasm of the phantom arm?

Maybe you can relieve the phantom pain, the phantom cramp.

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