Synonym: break, breather, intermission, interruption, lull, pause, recess, relief, reprieve, rest. Similar words: despite, spite, in spite of, spit, hospital, jupiter, respect, respond. Meaning: ['respaɪt ,pɪt] 
n. 1. a (temporary) relief from harm or discomfort 2. a pause from doing something (as work) 3. an interruption in the intensity or amount of something 4. a pause for relaxation 5. the act of reprieving; postponing or remitting punishment. v. postpone the punishment of a convicted criminal, such as an execution.
n. 1. a (temporary) relief from harm or discomfort 2. a pause from doing something (as work) 3. an interruption in the intensity or amount of something 4. a pause for relaxation 5. the act of reprieving; postponing or remitting punishment. v. postpone the punishment of a convicted criminal, such as an execution. 
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91. Is there to be no respite for me?
92. This brings only a respite for the prime minister.
93. Such words have a respite leeway to the developer.
94. Changing your grip may bring temporary respite, or calamity.
95. Respite, term residential and day care are also available.
96. The noise went on all night without respite.
97. The telephone gave me no respite.
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98. This plan enabled the oiler and the correspondent to get respite together.
99. CNN: The torch arrival in Beijing allows the government a brief respite before the relay sets off on a problematic, monthlong world tour.
100. She was interrogated without respite for twenty - four hours.
101. This battle raged for eight hours without respite, until our soldiers ran out of ammunition.
102. The painkiller only provides him a short respite from his pain.
103. There respite for the Japanese market as traders returned from Monday's holiday.
104. It's a rest cure, offering respite and recuperation from routine pressures—time in which to relax, refresh, and recharge.
105. This is widely recognized in giving schizophrenics a more sheltered environment, but as the press is for society to reabsorb the individual, any respite from the chemical surges is short lived.
106. This comes as a welcome respite for professionals who've experienced layoffs, underemployment and visa issues.
107. But environmentalists will cheer that, at last, there may be some respite for the world's dwindling resources and hard-pressed ecosystems.
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109. But if the laws were repealed tomorrow, most of the nations of the world would make no move to take advantage of the respite, and any that did would be in danger of finding their credit vanishing.
110. Some airline experts view the downturn in energy prices as little more than a respite from the punishingly high costs. So it's hard to know how airlines will react.
111. During the week-ends the householders , enjoying a respite from their office duties, visited the Master.
112. His extreme reaction won him a brief respite, but they soon resumed their nagging about his bachelorhood.
113. Hitler's plan for the invasion of Russia soon brought us much - needed respite in the air.
114. Away from the sight of thy face my heart knows no rest nor respite, and my work becomes an endless toil in a shoreless sea of toil.
115. There was no time for respite from the task at hand.
116. Further any respite and any deadline shall be in writing.
117. There's respite from the insistent grooves on the sparser Waide Nayde, and the slinky lope of Jombajo.
118. Today can offer you a bit of respite tumultuous few weeks.
119. At last, some respite for the beleaguered US Treasuries market.
120. Away form the sight of thy face my heart knows no rest nor respite, and my work becomes an endless toil in a shoreless sea of toil.
More similar words: despite, spite, in spite of, spit, hospital, jupiter, respect, respond, response, respondent, resplendent, respectively, with respect to, correspondent, irrespective of, be responsible for, corresponding to, spin, pit, spill, spine, pitch, inspire, capita, pitcher, capital, suspicion, pittance, decrepit, suspicious.