Definitions for reprieve

reprieve re·prieve

Spelling: [ri-preev]
IPA: /rɪˈpriv/

Reprieve is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 86 anagrams from letters in reprieve (eeeiprrv).

Definitions for reprieve

noun

  1. a respite from impending punishment, as from execution of a sentence of death.
  2. a warrant authorizing this.
  3. any respite or temporary relief.

verb (used with object)

  1. to delay the impending punishment or sentence of (a condemned person).
  2. to relieve temporarily from any evil.

Origin of reprieve

1300-50; perhaps conflation of Middle English repreven to reprove, apparently taken in literal sense “to test again” (involving postponement), and Middle English r

Examples for reprieve

The procedure was captured on-camera and released by the human rights organization, reprieve.

But even if she did go it was a reprieve; it gave him one last opportunity.

But six months into his probation, Bartiromo asked the judge presiding over his case for a reprieve.

He had got a reprieve, or a respite, and he felt like a boy--another kind of boy from what he had ever been.

There were moments of reprieve, then the boiling water again.

After a reprieve over the spring and summer, debt-ceiling brinksmanship is about to resume.

When POTUS asked Malia if she wanted to pet the turkey before he granted its reprieve, she responded appropriately: “Nah.”

It might have been the gasp of the condemned man at the sound of the word “reprieve.”

"Well, it is at least a reprieve," said she, with a dreary sigh; and they retired.

The crying need of an imperiled republic could not reprieve him.

Word Value for reprieve
Scrable

13

Words with friends

15

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