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UK
/ɹɪlˈiːvɐ/
]
[ US /ɹiˈɫivɝ/ ]
[ US /ɹiˈɫivɝ/ ]
NOUN
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someone who takes the place of another (as when things get dangerous or difficult)
we need extra employees for summer fill-ins
the star had a stand-in for dangerous scenes -
a person who reduces the intensity (e.g., of fears) and calms and pacifies
an allayer of fears
a reliever of anxiety - a pitcher who does not start the game
How To Use reliever In A Sentence
- Also, bring along a daypack, an extra water bottle, energy bars (or your favorite healthy snacks), pain relievers and muscle rubs.
- Other recalled drugs included hypertension pills amlodipine and doxazosin and pain-reliever naproxen. U.K. Issues Recall Of Various Generics
- Exs.: "aspirin" (once a trademark of some Bayer company for salicylic-based pain reliever); "Thermos" (once a trademark attributable to a single source of glass-lined vacuum bottles). Define That Term #287
- No pinch hitters, runners, or relievers were used.
- Topical pain relievers are creams, lotions, or sprays that you put on your skin to relieve pain from sore muscles and arthritis.
- Generally it's adequately managed with occasional use of reliever medications when required.
- A moisturizer, exfoliator and itch reliever, oatmeal is a triple-threat skin treatment.
- MINNEAPOLIS -- J.J. Putz exited Thursday's 11-0 victory over the Twins with what the reliever described as patella inflammation in his right knee. Chicago White Sox News
- This device was simply a gas grill igniter with finger grips added, sold as a pain-reliever.
- Many of those efforts, though, have been big disappointments: Aleve pain reliever, Citrus Hill orange juice, the Rely tampon, perhaps even Olestra, 20 years in development but so far slow to catch on.
