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releaser

releaser

5.6
Something or someone that causes another thing to be released
  • noun
  • /rɪˈliːsər/
translation icon : liberador
  • SO, AEROBIC EXERCISE IS PROBABLY ONE OF THE BEST RELEASERS OF DOPAMINE, ESPECIALLY IF YOU DO IT IN NOVEL WAYS.

Examples

  • At some point, as western forests succumb to the ills of climate change, they will become a net releaser of atmospheric carbon, rather than one of the planet's principal means of storing it.

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  • This image of the narrator as an elderly woman is reinforced by her intimacy with "Doden befriaren" (Death, the Releaser), whom she evokes in Gnostic terms as her waiting groom.

    Academic text (1995)
  • Death... is the grand releaser, transforming torrid pain into soothing ice.

  • But there is good news on that link also, about Johnson & Johnson (their many products are listed) will remove dangerous chemicals like formaldehyde-releasers and triclosan.

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  • The environmental organization identified a new chemical that acts as a major releaser of harmful gases into the atmosphere.

  • During the therapy session, the psychologist explained how journaling can be a powerful releaser of pent-up emotions.

  • The engineer developed a device designed to be a releaser of built-up tension in mechanical systems.

Synonyms

liberator
vsreleaser
21 5.3

A person who frees people from slavery or prison

covers any agent that causes release not only people freeing others
expeller
vsreleaser
  • Specialized
7.7

A machine or person that presses seeds to get oil

causes release more generally and is not limited to mechanical force

Antonyms

56 6.1

A person or animal that takes and holds another living thing, often by force

Surface Forms

releaser singular
releasers plural

Morphology

releaser = release (transparent) = release + er

Formed by the verb 'release' plus the productive agentive suffix '-er', so the meaning 'one or something that releases' is directly predictable.

Etymology

Releaser comes from release, which means 'to let go' or 'set free'. So a releaser is a person or thing that makes something free or lets it go.