Reprieve is valid Scrabble Word

Is reprieve a scrabble word?
Official Scrabble Players Dictionary YES
Official Tournament and Club Word List YES
Collins Scrabble Words YES
Is reprieve valid Words with Friends?
Words with Friends YES

8 letters word
13 points in Scrabble
15 points in WWF

Definitions for REPRIEVE in dictionary:

VERB:

to give a respite to
cancel or postpone the punishment of (someone, especially someone condemned to death)
abandon or postpone plans to close or abolish (something)
postpone the execution of (a condemned person)
To delay the punishment of; to suspend the execution of sentence on; to give a respite to; to respite; as, to reprieve a criminal for thirty days.
To relieve for a time, or temporarily.
postpone the punishment of a convicted criminal, such as an execution
relieve temporarily

NOUN:

a cancellation or postponement of a punishment
a cancellation or postponement of an undesirable event

A temporary suspension of the execution of a sentence, especially of a sentence of death.
Interval of ease or relief; respite.
a (temporary) relief from harm or discomfort
an interruption in the intensity or amount of something
a warrant granting postponement (usually to postpone the execution of the death sentence)
the act of reprieving; postponing or remitting punishment
(document granting) postponement or cancellation of a punishment

OTHER DEFINITIONS:

to postpone the punishment of

Words related to REPRIEVE

repreeve13 reprievable18 reprieval14 reprieved15 repriever14 reprievers15 reprieves14 reprieving16 reprive12 repryve15

Words that contain REPRIEVE

reprieved15 repriever14 reprieves14 reprievers15 unreprieved17

How to use REPRIEVE in a sentence

We left her to enjoy her frugal meal and her noontide reprieve in peace, and came back to the middle of the town.
A tremendous agitation in favour of his reprieve broke out at once.
The sheriff enters, bearing in his hand a reprieve, written apparently on a window-blind.
The more Northern have yet a reprieve of fate, as having not yet wholly forgotten the lessons of their origin.
So it was, that when happier days seemed to be dawning for the good man, that reprieve came too late.
The governor has declined to pardon or reprieve, despite the fact that the Anti-Capital-Punishment League has raised quite a stir in California.
As he passed through the after-hatch, all the officers on the quarter-deck bowed to him, and not a man was there in the ship who did not feel the happier for the reprieve.
Then he seized a pen, and, with the only hand he had, scratched a letter, directing a reprieve until further orders.
But a heavy shower came on, so wetting the wood that it was determined to reprieve him till the morrow.
The queen, it is true, sent a reprieve, but Lord Burleigh took care it should arrive too late.

They had a long sitting of parliament, and it was moved and seconded, and unanimously carried, that each give the other a reprieve.
An application for a reprieve had been made to the king without being granted.
She glanced into his face to see if there was any reprieve from the hard sentence.
In fact, one instant spent in thought then would have proved his death warrant without hope of a reprieve.
To be able to speak his name and see him awaiting her, must have been relief, a reprieve.
Was this to be a reprieve? But he was not sure that he wanted a reprieve.
The captain petitioned the assembly to have the benefit of the Act of Privateers, and the House twice sent a committee to the governor to endeavour to obtain a reprieve.
He went round to the twelve condemned wretches, and asked each man separately if, being under sentence of death, he desired a reprieve or wished for death.
He would accordingly hold out no hope of a reprieve, but would counsel prisoner to make the best use of the short time remaining to him.
Ah! There is no need to beg for mercy and reprieve from the examination.
The queen granted a reprieve to this man, in hope of his making some important discovery, but he really knew nothing of consequence to the nation.
Stakes were driven to mark the rise or fall of the water, and we settled down like prisoners, waiting for an expected reprieve.
It was like bringing a horseback reprieve to the hero on the stage.
She was strangely impelled to reject a reprieve from a life of wretchedness, unless it came through the high court of love.
By means of a reprieve the President may gain time to look into the evidence more carefully.
A reprieve from death itself or the blood of his fellow man upon his hands had been met and passed.
So they were to have a reprieve of a few hours, though they rode in that dark shadow of death which was closing in upon them.
Dyer when her son, who had come in all haste from Rhode Island, obtained her reprieve on his promise to take her away.
Perhaps deep in the heart of her she was even thankful for this brief reprieve.
STUNNED by his reprieve, doubting that he was awake, Glaucus had been led by the officers of the arena into a small cell within the walls of the theatre.
By almost desperately insisting on a visit to Aunt Harriet she got a reprieve of a month.
It seemed like a reprieve from the doom of winter, or from even November itself.
The Knave, took all that he could get, and, leaving his friend sitting in the stocks in his shirt-sleeves, he disappeared as swiftly as one could wish a man to carry a reprieve.
Never was bearer of reprieve for the condemned more welcome.

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