Vocabulary
Reprieve
English and Urdu gloss, synonyms and antonyms, and example usage from our editorial sentence cache where available.
English meaning
cancel or postpone the punishment of (someone, especially someone condemned to death).
Urdu meaning
عارضی سکون، وقتی سکون،وقتی آرام
Example sentences (from Dawn)
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- That temporary reprieve has ended.
- Although the administration secured a temporary reprieve from an appeals court that paused the ruling, the legal battle is far from over.
- This week, Trump`s trade team far less belligerent than when the tariffs were first announced has been eager to boast of how the world is coming to America, begging for reprieve.
- Most women in Pakistan spend all their lives entrapped by these forces; naturally the few who can escape are gratefulfor the reprieve.
- This month, after Donald Trump suspended his supposedly irrevocable tariffs on pretty much every country in the world (including a couple of uninhabited islands) after stock markets went into free fall, China was excluded from the reprieve.
Synonyms
grant a stay of execution to, pardon, spare, acquit, grant an amnesty to, amnesty, let off
Curator example
“under the new regime, prisoners under sentence of death were reprieved”
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