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Noun reprieve has 4 senses
- reprieve, respite - a (temporary) relief from harm or discomfort
--1 is a kind of relief, ease
- suspension, respite, reprieve, hiatus, abatement - an interruption in the intensity or amount of something
--2 is a kind of interruption, break
--2 has particulars: defervescence; remission, remittal, subsidence
- reprieve - a warrant granting postponement (usually to postpone the execution of the death sentence)
--3 is a kind of warrant
- reprieve, respite - the act of reprieving; postponing or remitting punishment
--4 is a kind of clemency, mercifulness, mercy
Verb reprieve has 2 senses
- reprieve, respite - postpone the punishment of a convicted criminal, such as an execution
--1 is one way to postpone, prorogue, hold over, put over, table, shelve, set back, defer, remit, put off
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s somebody
- reprieve - relieve temporarily
--2 is one way to rescue, deliver
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
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