Synonym: abatement, hiatus, respite, suspension. Similar words: aggrieved, reprisal, reprimand, grievance, achieve, believe, relieve, priest. Meaning: [rɪ'prɪːv] 
n. 1. a (temporary) relief from harm or discomfort 2. an interruption in the intensity or amount of something 3. a warrant granting postponement (usually to postpone the execution of the death sentence) 4. the act of reprieving; postponing or remitting punishment. v. 1. postpone the punishment of a convicted criminal, such as an execution 2. relieve temporarily.
n. 1. a (temporary) relief from harm or discomfort 2. an interruption in the intensity or amount of something 3. a warrant granting postponement (usually to postpone the execution of the death sentence) 4. the act of reprieving; postponing or remitting punishment. v. 1. postpone the punishment of a convicted criminal, such as an execution 2. relieve temporarily. 
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(31) The proposed cuts had led to talk of its closure but today a reprieve was announced.
(32) Minutes later a reprieve arrived - a dire warning to all teetotallers!
(33) But for her brother there could be no reprieve. On this hilltop, she walked in his shadow.
(34) London zoo gets reprieve CLOSURE-threatened London Zoo has been given a last-minute reprieve because so many people want to visit it.
(35) Will be crossing everything in the hope of a last minute reprieve.
(36) Read in studio A sheltered workshop for the disabled which is threatened with closure has won a temporary reprieve.
(37) The group protested against a possible reprieve for an inmate on death row in Texas.
(38) They both knew it was less a vacation than a reprieve.
(39) Other analysts say investors themselves may call for a reprieve from the offering calendar.
(40) Saying this much made her brighten, seemed to make her feel that she had earned a temporary reprieve.
(41) Civilization, which seemed at an end only two weeks ago, has been given a reprieve.
(42) The team even received some compensation in the event of a last-minute reprieve being granted to the condemned person.
(43) Kids soon may get a brief reprieve from having to eat all their vegetables.
(44) I will grant the most hardened criminal a reprieve rather than see him hang.
(45) The agony and the ecstasy of the eleventh-hour reprieve illustrated the central paradox of Calvinism.
(46) We might be forgiven for keeping our fingers crossed that the Council Tax will represent a reprieve.
(47) They drew away from each other, so mutually sated with explosive body contact that both needed a temporary reprieve.
(48) That past weeks had been an unexpected brief reprieve.
(49) Even this extra minute was a reprieve.
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(50) The film is a God - given reprieve.
(51) You have a seven - day reprieve!
(52) Commutation is distinct from reprieve.
(53) The criminal won his reprieve at the eleventh hour.
(54) According to the claim of the legal proceeding , design the procedure what has the Judicial nature for the the alteration of execution of reprieve of death Penal.
(55) Sabat is not out of trouble; he did not receive a reprieve, merely a temporary stay of execution.
(56) In order to reform those criminals who have committed crimes punishable by death but who may still be reformable , China has created a unique system of a death penalty with a two-year reprieve.
(57) Be reformable , China has created a unique system of a death penalty with a two-year reprieve.
(58) Penalty as a reaction to crime, was created because of culture, and was evolute because of cultural development and evolution, and the reprieve of penalty is the direct impetus to cultural progress.
(59) One tender moment's reprieve from loneliness can illuminate a life.
(60) The periodic table would appear thus to have won a temporary reprieve.
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