Relieve or relieve means to ease or alleviate; to lighten a burden or duty--
Your assignment is to relieve the sentry at midnight.
We should each tell a story; it would relieve the monotony.
Relive or relive means to experience something again; to revisit in memory or imagination--
He was afraid to fall asleep, for fear that he would relive the accident in his dreams.
He has a tendency to relive the past; he's been seeing a therapist.
Now that you know that, you can say--
"I hate to ask him to relive that awful night, but it might relieve his anxiety."
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