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reliever

American  
[ri-lee-ver] / rɪˈli vər /

noun

  1. a person or thing that relieves.

  2. Baseball. relief pitcher.

reliever British  
/ rɪˈliːvə /

noun

  1. baseball another name for relief pitcher

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Etymology

Origin of reliever

First recorded in 1475–85; relieve, -er 1

Example Sentences

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Will a Philadelphia Phillies reliever lose his mind again?

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 22, 2026

Venezuela appeared to be closing in on victory but were jolted by Harper's 432-foot home run to center field off reliever Andres Machado in the eighth.

From Barron's • Mar. 18, 2026

Select locations will offer laughing gas as a pain reliever for insertion and removal of IUDs.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 1, 2026

Adding reliever Edwin Díaz and outfielder Kyle Tucker, frankly, is just piling on.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 13, 2026

They're all lined up so neatly on the bathroom counter: the vacuum-packed dressings coated with topical pain reliever, the latex-free surgical tape, the hydrogen peroxide, the prescription-grade antibiotic gel.

From "Burning Blue" by Paul Griffin

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