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Individuals with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) experience unwanted thoughts, images, and/or impulses (i.e., obsessions) that elicit distress, which sufferers attempt to reduce through ritualistic behavior (i.e., compulsions). That is, the reduction in distress from compulsions is believed to provide temporary relief to an individual with OCD. Although there is little research examining relief itself, it has been found to contain two manifestations: near-miss and task-completion relief. The present study examines how these relief manifestations present within an OCD context by using a contamination induction task to elicit feelings of disgust and contamination within two relief conditions, one for each manifestation of relief. Results indicate that overall levels of OC symptoms positively predict levels of relief characteristics. Relief levels within the near-miss condition were significantly correlated with a significant drop in state anxiety levels. Results also suggest that relief manifestations of near-miss and task-completion relief partially map on to OCD motivational dimensions of harm-avoidance and incompleteness, respectively. In addition, sensitivity to disgust was observed to significantly mediate the effect of OC symptoms of relief within the task-completion condition. Clinical implications of relief characterized as potential reinforcement are discussed.