English Dictionary

reprieve

IPA（発音記号）

/ɹɪˈpɹiːv/

動詞

他動詞 廃用

(transitive) To cancel or postpone the punishment of someone, especially an execution. / (transitive) To bring relief to someone. / (transitive, obsolete) To take back to prison (in lieu of execution).

日本語の意味

（特に死刑の場合に）刑罰を取り消す、または執行を延期する / （誰かに）安堵を与える、助けになる / （古語）処刑の代わりにその者を刑務所に戻す

After new DNA evidence emerged, the governor decided to reprieve the prisoner, postponing the scheduled execution until a full review could be completed.

新たなDNA証拠が出てきたため、知事はその受刑者の刑の執行を猶予し、全面的な再審査が完了するまで予定されていた死刑を延期した。

意味（1）

(transitive) To cancel or postpone the punishment of someone, especially an execution.

意味（2）

(transitive) To bring relief to someone.

Company […] may reprieve a man from his melancholy, yet it cannot secure him from his conscience.

意味（3）

(transitive, obsolete) To take back to prison (in lieu of execution).

意味（4）

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.

reprieves （ present singular third-person ）

reprieving （ participle present ）

reprieved （ participle past ）

reprieved （ past ）