reliever
a person or thing that relieves.
Baseball. relief pitcher.
Origin of reliever
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How to use reliever in a sentence
The playoff roster that won it all in 2019 included none of the relievers from the division winner just three years prior.
Brad Hand’s arrival might end a Nationals tradition: The search for summer relief | Barry Svrluga | January 26, 2021 | Washington PostOne is that the Nationals fill out their bullpen with Clay and McGowin, who could both become depth options — swinging between the majors and minors — if the club sees a chance to add relievers.
Jon Lester’s reasonable contract leaves the Nationals room to address their remaining needs | Jesse Dougherty | January 20, 2021 | Washington PostThe next items to check off are a second catcher, a backup first baseman and perhaps a reliever to fill out the bullpen.
Nationals and veteran starter Jon Lester agree to one-year deal | Jesse Dougherty | January 19, 2021 | Washington PostThe top remaining relievers are Hand and Alex Colomé, whom Washington nearly dealt for at the 2019 trade deadline and who has always been of interest.
The Nationals’ bullpen doesn’t need a makeover. But it could use another arm or two. | Jesse Dougherty | January 14, 2021 | Washington PostThat assumes Finnegan and Suero are back in the mix as middle relievers.
What’s missing from the Nationals’ roster? Here’s an early look. | Jesse Dougherty | November 6, 2020 | Washington Post
By 2001, sales of the drug exceeded $1 billion, making Oxy the bestselling nongeneric narcotic pain reliever in the country.
‘Oxyana’ Documentary at Tribeca Exposes the OxyContin Epidemic | Marlow Stern | April 23, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTThey were sleeping, arms about each other, warm in the arms of Death, the kindly reliever of Pain.
Islands of Space | John W Campbell"No alms will be given to-day," said the reliever-of-Headaches.
This reliever then came up to the women and asked them how they did.
The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan | John BunyanChloral hydrate not only possesses these qualities, but it also is an antiferment and a pain reliever.
Special Report on Diseases of the Horse | United States Department of Agriculturereliever, a coat worn in turn by any party of poor devils whose wardrobes are in pawn.
The Slang Dictionary | John Camden Hotten
British Dictionary definitions for reliever
/ (rɪˈliːvə) /
baseball another name for relief pitcher
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