Definition of Relieve oneself

1. Verb. Eliminate urine. "Again, the cat had made on the expensive rug"


Definition of Relieve oneself

1. Verb. To urinate and/or defecate. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Relieve Oneself

relief valves
relief work
relief worker
relief workers
reliefful
reliefless
relieflike
reliefs
relier
reliers
relies
reliest
relieth
relievable
relieved
relievedly
relievement
relievements
reliever
relievers
relieves
relievest
relieveth
relieving
relievingly
relievo
relievos
religate

Literary usage of Relieve oneself

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. War Through Children's Eyes: The Soviet Occupation of Poland and the by Irina Grudzinka-Gross, Jan T. Gross (1985)
"There was no place to relieve oneself. One had to relieve oneself on the floor and then we threw it out when someone was going out to get water. ..."

2. A French-English Dictionary for Chemists by Austin McDowell Patterson (1921)
"—vr discharge, unload or relieve oneself; be discharged; (of dyes) fade out; (of rivers) empty. déchargeur, m. discharger; unloader; drawer (of coke, etc. ..."

3. Grammar of the Spanish Language: With Practical Exercises by Auguste-Louis Josse (1847)
"... body to divulge one's secret to another ungrateful for any benefit to communicate (to another) one's trouble to relieve oneself from fatigue to alienate ..."

4. Report of the Proceedings by Church congress (1883)
"... almsgiving is no true charity, and that to bestow alms merely to relieve oneself from an importunate beggar, is not really benevolence, but selfishness. ..."

5. A History of French Private Law by Jean Brissaud, Rapelje Howell (1912)
"It suffices, in order to relieve oneself of this responsibility, to turn over the guilty person to the victim of the offense or to his relatives, ..."

6. Education: An Introduction to Its Principles and Their Psychological Foundations by Henry Holman (1896)
"It is most likely that there is the wish to relieve another so as to relieve oneself from being disturbed by him. The taking more or less account, ..."

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