reliever
ree lee ver
- n someone who takes the place of another (as when things get dangerous or difficult)
- n a person who reduces the intensity (e.g., of fears) and calms and pacifies
a reliever of anxiety - n a pitcher who does not start the game
- For it was the game's best reliever, Oakland's Dennis Eckersley, protecting a one-run lead with a runner on against the Dodgers' ailing MVP, Kirk Gibson, who volunteered to pinch .
- The best-selling over-the-counter pain reliever and its generic copycats are staples in American medicine cabinets.
- New York reliever Don Liddle had been brought in to face Wertz but now was being taken out of the game.