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# reliever

«reliever» in Mova's school dictionary: **something that takes away or eases pain or trouble, like…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a reliever, relievers)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A reliever is something that takes away or eases pain or trouble, like a pain reliever (a medicine). [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/reliever/#m1)

2) An inhaler that quickly helps a person with asthma breathe, often blue. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/reliever/#m2)

3) In baseball and cricket, a player who comes on to take over from another. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/reliever/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

Used in health and safety: pain relievers are medicines; only take them when an adult gives them. Children with asthma carry a reliever inhaler, often to school and PE. Phrases: "pain reliever", "stress reliever", "reliever inhaler".

### examples

- Mum gave me a pain reliever for my headache. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/reliever/#x1)
- Take your reliever inhaler to PE. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/reliever/#x2)
- A blue inhaler is usually a reliever. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/reliever/#x3)
- Squeezing a ball is a good stress reliever. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/reliever/#x4)
- The reliever pitcher came in to finish the game. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/reliever/#x5)
- Never take a pain reliever without asking an adult. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/reliever/#x6)

### note

Countable. From the verb "relieve" (to make pain or worry less); noun "relief". Spelling: "ie" in reliever. A "preventer" inhaler is different and is taken every day.

### In the corpora

- [Asthma narrows the tubes that carry air into the lungs, so breathing is hard and wheezy; a reliever inhaler opens them again.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/85-splinters-stings-and-allergies/2/)
- [In an asthma attack, sit the person up, help them use their reliever inhaler and fetch an adult.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/85-splinters-stings-and-allergies/15/)
- [The blue reliever inhaler relaxes the airway muscles within minutes, like loosening a tight belt round the airways.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/14-asthma-and-inhalers/1/)
- [The blue reliever inhaler relaxes the airway muscles within minutes; inhalers control asthma but do not cure it.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/14-asthma-and-inhalers/6/)
- [UK schools can keep emergency reliever inhalers for children known to have asthma.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/14-asthma-and-inhalers/13/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «reliever» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/reliever/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.