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Synonyms:
- liberty, leisure, dispel, exempt, death warrant, suspension system, excuse, electric chair, squash, acquit, deliver, clear, snag, knock something on the head, absolve, break, license, interruption, unleash, relieve, let loose, foramen, privilege, freeing, exoneration, hitch, forget, freeness, disencumber, disengagement, hiatus, abatement, abeyance, ease, forbear, vindicate, postponement, temporary removal, halt, time out, cooling-off period, discharge, disentangle, relent, forgiveness, recess, prohibit, forgive, relief, exemption, postpone, behead, set free, emancipate, rest period, respite, stop, clemency, grace, death row, the chair, acquittal, get in the way of something, mercy, suspension, suspend, permit, untie, avoid, toleration, show mercy, disentwine, waiver, immunity, unchain, dispensation, continue, condone, avert, liberate, capital punishment, stay, crucifixion, amnesty, interval, prevent, stoppage, delay, hanging, the death penalty, except, execute, freedom, absolution, discourage, dismissal, relaxation, disengage, liberation, unbind, exception, rest, exonerate, interlude, pardon, intermission, concession, overlook, release, interrupt, emancipation, obstruct, dismiss, unfetter, free, permission, deliverance, tolerate, death sentence, remit, dangling, pause, vindication
Examples:
- - And yet Selene, whose youth- for she was but nineteen- needed repose and to whom the evening with the reprieve of sleep brought more pleasure than the morning with its load of cares and labor, sat by the three- branched lamp and watched, and tormented herself more and more as it grew later and later, at her father's long absence. - "The Complete Historical Romances of Georg Ebers", Georg Ebers
- - Then it is only a reprieve, she moaned, and I am none the less ruined. - "Baron Trigault's Vengeance Volume 2 (of 2)", Emile Gaboriau
- - Thus run the official words of the reprieve addressed to the hearts ashore lying under a heavy sentence. - "The Mirror of the Sea", Joseph Conrad
