DNR

abbreviation for

1. Medicine/Medical. do not resuscitate: (used in hospitals and other healthcare facilities to indicate to the staff the decision of a patient's doctors and family, or of the patient, to avoid extraordinary means of prolonging life).
2. do not return. Also D.N.R.

DNR

abbreviation for

1. do not resuscitate

Example Sentences

Told by a Ukrainian that the DNR were in Novotroitske, a guardsman said, “We know.”

From The Daily Beast

DNR leaders admitted that foreign aid workers in the Donetsk region had good reasons to be concerned about their safety.

From The Daily Beast

We urge DNR to release abducted people kept at the seized building of the Donetsk regional administration right now.

From The Daily Beast