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What is the difference between rescue and relief ?Feel free to just provide example sentences.
What is the difference between rescue and relief ?Feel free to just provide example sentences.
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Relief is the feeling you get when something stressful is finished. Ex.) "I am so relieved that school is over!"
Rescue is when someone is being saved from danger. Ex.) "We were rescued from the building"
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Rescue: is the act of removing something/someone from danger.
Relief: reassurance or assistance
Rescue: "I will rescue you from danger!"
"I got my dog from a shelter, they rescue hurt animals"
Relief: "I took some aspirin to provide me some relief from this headache"
"If was such a relief to share my concerns with you"
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You can say
I need for someone to come rescue my cat from the tree.
And you can say
My head is hurting I need to take medicine for the relief.
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rescue is to save a person from any unpleasant situation but relief is a feeling of happiness and safety!
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Rescue means that you save someone or something, while relief is just taking pressure off or releasing energy off of something, such as stress relief.
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Rescue is like when your saving someone/something and relief is like the felling you get once you've accomplish something stressful
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I rescued the dog.
Rescue is a verb. It means to save.
I was filled with relief after my dog was found.
Relief is a noun. It's the feeling of being relieved.
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rescue means to save. ex. He was rescued by the police from the criminal.
relief means relax, or to give help.
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Relief is also a kind of assistance in a form of money, food, goods, shelter, services. For example: relief goods are sent to the victims of typhoon.
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Rescue means to help someone or something from danger or try to get them out of danger or any problem . For example : you rescued a cat from drowning ... Relief means the feeling of reassurance or relaxation from stress or anything like that . For example : I felt great relief after sharing my problems ... hope that makes anysense 😀
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