VERB
對…緩期執行，撤銷…的刑罰
If someone who has been sentenced in a court is reprieved, their punishment is officially delayed or cancelled.
例句
Fourteen people, waiting to be hanged for the murder of a former prime minister, have been reprieved.
因謀殺前首相而即將處以絞刑的14個人已獲緩刑。