Respite is valid Scrabble Word

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

7 letters word
9 points in Scrabble
10 points in WWF

Definitions for RESPITE in dictionary:

VERB:

to relieve temporarily
postpone (a sentence, obligation, etc.)
grant a respite to (someone, especially a person condemned to death)
postpone the punishment of a convicted criminal, such as an execution
grant a respite to

NOUN:

a short period of rest or relief from something difficult or unpleasant
a short delay permitted before an unpleasant obligation is met or a punishment is carried out
pause, interval of rest
A putting off of that which was appointed; a postponement or delay.
Temporary intermission of labor, or of any process or operation; interval of rest; pause; delay.

Temporary suspension of the execution of a capital offender; reprieve.
The delay of appearance at court granted to a jury beyond the proper term.
To give or grant a respite to.
To delay or postpone; to put off.
To keep back from execution; to reprieve.
To relieve by a pause or interval of rest.
a (temporary) relief from harm or discomfort
a pause from doing something (as work)
an interruption in the intensity or amount of something
a pause for relaxation
the act of reprieving; postponing or remitting punishment

Words related to RESPITE

respited11 respiteless13 respites10 respiting12

How to use RESPITE in a sentence

My disgrace brought me respite for fresh adventure.
If I get my extension then I may expect some respite, or, at least, opposition in another shape.
I was grateful for the respite, for I had been walking all day and my knapsack was growing heavy.
May, the accomplice of Bishop and Williams, told me, the day after his respite, if they meant to transport him, he did not thank them for his life.
Even on Sundays there was little or no respite from toil.
One feels that we ought to have a little respite for the next week, and now we must do everything possible to tend and protect our ponies.
It was only that Mary gave him a blessed respite week by week.
We must use the respite we still enjoy for the most energetic warlike preparation, according to the principles which I have already laid down.
Her uncle, Major Stanleigh, had left me a few minutes before, and I was glad of the respite from the queer business he had involved me in.
And he was glad of the respite, willing to drift until he got his bearings.

Partial respite from war did not diminish the martial ardour of the king and his nobles.
The death of Caesar, and the civil wars which ensued, afforded foreign nations some respite from the Roman ambition.
He was more resolved than ever to die, only he yearned for several days of respite to nerve himself for the deed.
Their principal demand was a respite in the judiciary proceedings.
The Boers got no more guns into position to-day, but we had only gained a brief respite, and at the sacrifice of some valuable lives.
Boarding-houses allow their guests a brief respite in the summer.
His indefatigable exertions afforded him a respite from the thought of his terrible pursuer.
The two-year respite, well-earned after the expenditure of such a colossal effort, covering such a tremendous range, during so dark a period, is now ended.
It was hard to realize that they were only having a momentary respite from the war, and, in a week or two, would be once more up in the line facing wounds and death.
This was a respite to the worn-out seamen, and also to the troops and passengers, who had been cooped below or drenched on the main-deck.
But a respite was granted it in which to recover its strength.
Then she had been used to seek respite from her life in the shelter of her dreams.
On November 3, 1653, he received a farther respite, in hopes he would make some discovery.
Hal took advantage of this respite to hurry upstairs for a word with Captain Anderson.
She needed a change, a respite, from the monotony of motherhood that was sinking her into it like a hole.
They could do nothing but dress the wound, put on this salve and that, give the sufferer a little respite from anguish, and, after a brief interval, repeat the operation.
I took to my hasty pacing to and fro again and succeeded, not without difficulty, in gaining a few days of respite, in making myself forget for a while.
But now, what little respite we may have, Let us not waste in idle argument.
During the time, therefore, that it was out of use, the woods enjoyed a respite from further damage.
Our aching hearts of late, have known but little respite.
My life has been spared to-day, and I tell you frankly that I am glad of the respite.
We marched through the night in order to get a little respite from fighting.

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