noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ VERB
relieve
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To relieve the tedium of the days they sang, or told stories to Enoch.
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She would have welcomed a raging tempest or a blistering drought - anything to relieve the endless tedium of her situation.
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Stress also relieves the tedium of everyday life.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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And ask any worker about the treadmill, the maddening tedium .
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For one thing it is devoid of the relentless lilt and terminological tedium of the professional programme writer.
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She wanted to be left alone, but now the tedium of her resolutely normal life is plastered across 190 pages.
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Sometimes I shave my legs, amazed at the majestic tedium of the activity.
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The average work week was nearly eighty hours of either backbreaking labor or mind-numbing tedium .
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The only things to break the dusty tedium are distant mountains, ragged scars on the horizon.
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To relieve the tedium of the days they sang, or told stories to Enoch.
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Two-thirty was a time of blank arrest; a time of tedium , with all the dangers tedium carries at its heart.