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n. A temporary cessation of the customary activities of an engagement, occupation, or pursuit.

n. The period of such cessation. See Synonyms at pause.

n. A remote, secret, or secluded place. Often used in the plural.

n. An indentation or small hollow.

n. An alcove.

v. To place in a recess.

v. To create or fashion a recess in: recessed a portion of the wall.

v. To suspend for a recess: The committee chair recessed the hearings.

verb-intransitive. To take a recess: The investigators recessed for lunch.

n. A break, pause or vacation.

n. An inset, hole, space or opening.

n. A time of play, usually, on a playground.

n. A decree of the imperial diet of the old German empire.

v. To inset into something, or to recede.

v. To take or declare a break.

v. To appoint, with a recess appointment.

adj. Remote, distant (in time or place).

n. A withdrawing or retiring; a moving back; retreat.

n. The state of being withdrawn; seclusion; privacy.

n. Remission or suspension of business or procedure; intermission, as of a legislative body, court, or school.

n. Part of a room formed by the receding of the wall, as an alcove, niche, etc.

n. A place of retirement, retreat, secrecy, or seclusion.

n. Secret or abstruse part.

n. A sinus.

v. To make a recess in.

n. A decree of the imperial diet of the old German empire.

n. The act of receding, or going back or away; withdrawal; retirement; recession.

n. A state of being withdrawn or retired; seclusion; privacy.

n. A time of withdrawal or retirement; an interval of release from occupation; specifically, a period of relief from attendance, as of a school, a jury, a legislative body, or other assembly; a temporary dismissal.

n. A place of retirement or seclusion; a remote or secret spot or situation; a nook; hence, a hidden or abstruse part of anything: as, the recesses of a forest; the recesses of philosophy.

n. A receding space or inward indentation or depression in a line of continuity; a niche, alcove, or the like: as, a recess in a room for a window or a bed; a recess in a wall or the side of a hill. See cut under ambry.

n. A treaty, law, decree, or contract embodying the results of a negotiation; especially, a decree or law promulgated by tlie Diet of the old German empire, or by that of the Hanseatic League.

n. In botany, a sinus of a lobed leaf.

n. In anatomy and zoology, a receding or hollowedout part; a depression or sinus; a recessus.

n. Synonyms Prorogation, Dissolution, etc. (see adjournment), intermission, respite.

n. Retreat, nook, corner.

To make a recess in; form with a space sunk beyond the general surface: as, to recess a wall.

To place in a recess; form as a recess; make a recess of or for; hence, to conceal in or as if in a recess.

To take a recess; adjourn or separate for a short time: as, the convention recessed till the afternoon.

n. a small concavity

n. an arm off of a larger body of water (often between rocky headlands)

v. make a recess in

n. an enclosure that is set back or indented

v. put into a recess

n. a pause from doing something (as work)

v. close at the end of a session

n. a state of abeyance or suspended business

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recessed    recesses    recessing    recesss   

indent    position    pose    put    set    lay    place    stop    finish    terminate   

interval    retreat    recession    interior    inlet    hollow    tympanic recess    iliac recess    contrariety of access and recess    lateral recess   

recessed    recessing    recessive    recession   

retreat    seclusion    privacy    sinus    niche    pause    break    vacation    day off   

Bess    Es    Etess    Fs    Hess    Hesse    Ins    Jess    Les    Ness   

alcove    nook    niche    cavern    grotto    crevice    opening    vault    glade    chamber