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Reprieved
- verb - postpone the punishment of a convicted criminal, such as an execution
- relieve temporarily
Reprieves
- noun - a (temporary) relief from harm or discomfort
- a warrant granting postponement (usually to postpone the execution of the death sentence)
- an interruption in the intensity or amount of something
- postpone the punishment of a convicted criminal, such as an execution
- relieve temporarily
- the act of reprieving; postponing or remitting punishment
Reprimand
- noun - an act or expression of criticism and censure; "he had to take the rebuke with a smile on his face"
- Berate
- censure severely or angrily; "The mother scolded the child for entering a stranger's car"; "The deputy ragged the Prime Minister"; "The customer dressed down the waiter for bringing cold soup"
- rebuke formally
- Tell off
Reprinted
- verb - print anew; "They never reprinted the famous treatise"
Reprisals
- noun - a retaliatory action against an enemy in wartime
Reprising
- verb - happen again
- repeat an earlier theme of a composition
Reprizing
- verb - repeat an earlier theme of a composition
Reprobate
- adjective - deviating from what is considered moral or right or proper or good; "depraved criminals"; "a perverted sense of loyalty"; "the reprobate conduct of a gambling aristocrat"
- a person without moral scruples
- abandon to eternal damnation; "God reprobated the unrepenting sinner"
- express strong disapproval of; "We condemn the racism in South Africa"; "These ideas were reprobated"
- reject (documents) as invalid