Difference between Exempt and Relieve

What is the difference between Exempt and Relieve?

Exempt as a verb is to release or deliver from some liability which others are subject to. while Relieve as a verb is to lift up; to raise again, as one who has fallen; to cause to rise.

Exempt

Part of speech: noun

Definition: One who has been released from something.

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: Free from a duty or obligation. Not entitled to overtime pay when working overtime.

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To release or deliver from some liability which others are subject to. To except or excuse from the operation of a law. To grant immunity to. To free from obligation. To release; as, to exempt from military duty, or from jury service. To exempt from fear or pain.

Example sentence: My varied listening palette is all-inclusive of all walks of life. No one individual is exempt from the human experience, so it is that intangible that is a universal truth. In that regard, I've had success in encapsulating something cosmic.

Relieve

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To lift up; to raise again, as one who has fallen; to cause to rise.To cause to seem to rise; to put in relief; to give prominence or conspicuousness to; to set off by contrast.To raise up something in; to introduce a contrast or variety into; to remove the monotony or sameness of.To raise or remove, as anything which depresses, weighs down, or crushes; to render less burdensome or afflicting; to alleviate; to abate; to mitigate; to lessen; as, to relieve pain; to relieve the wants of the poor.To free, wholly or partly, from any burden, trial, evil, distress, or the like; to give ease, comfort, or consolation to; to give aid, help, or succor to; to support, strengthen, or deliver; as, to relieve a besieged town.To release from a post, station, or duty; to put another in place of, or to take the place of, in the bearing of any burden, or discharge of any duty.To ease of any imposition, burden, wrong, or oppression, by judicial or legislative interposition, as by the removal of a grievance, by indemnification for losses, or the like; to right.

Example sentence: I take the view that anything you can do to relieve suffering or improve human health will usually be widely accepted by the public - that is to say, if cloning actually turned out to be solving some problems and was useful to people, I think it would be accepted.

We hope you now know whether to use Exempt or Relieve in your sentence.

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