Free someone from duty or from pain (7)

I believe the answer is:

relieve

(Other definitions for relieve that I've seen before include "Break the sameness of" , "Alleviate, assuage" , "Make (pain) less severe" , "Free someone from duty by taking his place" , "Lighten a burden or raise a seige" .)

I've seen this clue in The Irish Times.

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