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We found 36 dictionaries with English definitions that include the word reprieve:
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General dictionaries General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. reprieve: Compact Oxford English Dictionary [home, info]
  2. reprieve: V2 Vocabulary Building Dictionary [home, info]
  3. reprieve: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language [home, info]
  4. reprieve: Encarta® World English Dictionary, North American Edition [home, info]
  5. reprieve: Merriam-Webster's Online Dictionary, 11th Edition [home, info]
  6. Reprieve, reprieve: Wordnik [home, info]
  7. reprieve: Cambridge International Dictionary of English [home, info]
  8. reprieve: Wiktionary [home, info]
  9. reprieve: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed. [home, info]
  10. reprieve: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus [home, info]
  11. reprieve: Infoplease Dictionary [home, info]
  12. reprieve: Dictionary.com [home, info]
  13. reprieve (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary [home, info]
  14. reprieve: UltraLingua English Dictionary [home, info]
  15. reprieve: Cambridge Dictionary of American English [home, info]
  16. Reprieve (Campaigning organisation), Reprieve (album), Reprieve (organisation), Reprieve, The Reprieve (Sartre), The Reprieve: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia [home, info]
  17. Reprieve: Online Plain Text English Dictionary [home, info]
  18. reprieve: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition [home, info]
  19. reprieve: Rhymezone [home, info]
  20. reprieve: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary [home, info]
  21. reprieve: Webster's 1828 Dictionary [home, info]
  22. Reprieve: 1911 edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica [home, info]
  23. reprieve: Free Dictionary [home, info]
  24. reprieve: Mnemonic Dictionary [home, info]
  25. reprieve: WordNet 1.7 Vocabulary Helper [home, info]
  26. reprieve: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus [home, info]
  27. reprieve: Dictionary/thesaurus [home, info]

Business dictionaries Business (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. reprieve: Webster's New World Law Dictionary [home, info]
  2. reprieve: Law.com Dictionary [home, info]
  3. reprieve: Everybody's Legal Dictionary [home, info]
  4. Reprieve: THE 'LECTRIC LAW LIBRARY'S REFERENCE ROOM [home, info]
  5. REPRIEVE: Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition [home, info]
  6. reprieve: Legal dictionary [home, info]

Computing dictionaries Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. reprieve: Encyclopedia [home, info]

Miscellaneous dictionaries Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. reprieve: Political [home, info]
  2. Reprieve: Brilliant Dream Dictionary [home, info]

Quick definitions (reprieve)

noun:  the act of reprieving; postponing or remitting punishment
noun:  a warrant granting postponement (usually to postpone the execution of the death sentence)
noun:  a (temporary) relief from harm or discomfort
noun:  an interruption in the intensity or amount of something
verb:  relieve temporarily
verb:  postpone the punishment of a convicted criminal, such as an execution

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