reprive

Verb

reprieve (third-person singular simple present reprieves, present participle reprieving, simple past and past participle reprieved)

1. (transitive) To cancel or postpone the punishment of someone, especially an execution.
2. (transitive) To bring relief to someone.
   • Company […] may reprieve a man from his melancholy, yet it cannot secure him from his conscience.1692–1717, Robert South, Twelve Sermons Preached upon Several Occasions, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London
3. (obsolete, transitive) To take back to prison (in lieu of execution).
4. (transitive) To abandon or postpone plans to close, withdraw or abolish (something).
   • At the time of writing the halts have been reprieved due to doubts as to the legality of the withdrawal of services. It is feared that this reprieve may not outlast the summer timetable which, on the section in question, provides only a skeleton of the former service.1960 August, L. Hyland, “The Irish Scene”, in Trains Illustrated, page 468

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