v.
  - cancel the punishment of.
 - abandon or postpone plans to close (something).
 
n.
  - a cancellation of a punishment.
 - a brief respite.
 
 
  Etymology
  C15 (as the past part. repryed): from Anglo-Norman Fr. repris, past part. of reprendre, from L. re- ‘back’ + prehendere ‘seize’.