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The Meaning of recess
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(n.) A withdrawing or retiring; a moving back; retreat; as, the recess of the tides.
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(n.) The state of being withdrawn; seclusion; privacy.
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(n.) Remission or suspension of business or procedure; intermission, as of a legislative body, court, or school.
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(n.) Part of a room formed by the receding of the wall, as an alcove, niche, etc.
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(n.) A place of retirement, retreat, secrecy, or seclusion.
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(n.) Secret or abstruse part; as, the difficulties and recesses of science.
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(n.) A sinus.
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(v. t.) To make a recess in; as, to recess a wall.
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(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