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The Meaning of recess

  • (n.) A withdrawing or retiring; a moving back; retreat; as, the recess of the tides.
  • (n.) The state of being withdrawn; seclusion; privacy.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; as, the difficulties and recesses of science.
  • (n.) A sinus.
  • (v. t.) To make a recess in; as, to recess a wall.
  • (n.) A decree of the imperial diet of the old German empire.

Synonyms

corner , deferral , inlet , deferment , niche , recession , postponement , break , respite , time out , nook , recessional , quoin , receding , ceding back , ecological niche , street corner , box , turning point , intake , prison-breaking , rest period , rest , jailbreak , relief , interruption , rift , intermission , severance , falling out , prisonbreak , suspension , breakout , faulting , break of serve , geological fault , gap , good luck , breaking , disruption , reprieve , open frame , gaolbreak , abatement , hiatus , breach , happy chance , fault , pause , shift , fracture , breakage , rupture , break up , adjourn , fragmentise , fragmentize , decompose , collapse , interrupt , crash , retire , split up , pick , dismantle , part , crock up , sever , cut off , fragment , split , disperse , separate , disrupt , dissolve , crack , disassemble , break apart , calve , dissipate , scatter , break down , resolve , take apart , dispel , crack up , withdraw , put , set , place , pose , position , lay

Rhymes

abs , abscess , abts , access , acquiesce , address , adss , aggress , assess , attests , bess , besse , bless , bress , bresse , caress , ccs , ches , chess , cmos , coalesce , compress , confess , contests , convalesce , cress , depress , digests , digress , dispossess , distress , dress , egress , ellesse , ess , esse , etess , excess , express , fess , finesse , fluoresce , fress , gess , gless , gress , guess , hces , headdress , hess , hesse , impress , ines , inverness , jess , kess , kless , kness , kress , kresse , kubes , largesse , lcs , les , less , letterpress , ls , mess , ness , nevertheless , noblesse , nonetheless , oas , obsess , oppress , outguess , overdress , pesce , pless , possess , precess , press , presse , process , profess , progress , protests , ques , reassess , redress , refenes , regress , reinvests , repossess , repress , requests , ress , s , simplesse , stds , stress , success , suppress , tcas , tess , transgress , tress , ts , undress , unless , uss , vess , watercress , wes , wess , ws , yes