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Definition of recess : 1. A decree of the imperial diet of the old German empire.
2. A place of retirement, retreat, secrecy, or seclusion.
3. A sinus.
4. A withdrawing or retiring; a moving back; retreat; as, the recess of the tides.
5. Part of a room formed by the receding of the wall, as an alcove, niche, etc.
6. Remission or suspension of business or procedure; intermission, as of a legislative body, court, or school.
7. Secret or abstruse part; as, the difficulties and recesses of science.
8. The state of being withdrawn; seclusion; privacy.
9. To make a recess in; as, to recess a wall.

Synonyms:

fragmentise, disassemble, falling out, gaolbreak, breach, good luck, break down, dissolve, shift, angle, closet, lull, break-up, respite, separate, cut off, hollow, cessation, sever, intake, breather, split up, crock up, crack, part, crash, coffee break, break of serve, crutch, breakout, cell, intermission, ceding back, ecological niche, withdraw, deferment, rupture, time-out, dispel, break apart, faulting, pigeonhole, decompose, street corner, pick, receding, collapse, quoin, crypt, mouth, severance, dent, prison-breaking, take apart, breakage, dismantle, opening, disperse, abatement, recession, halt, disruption, geological fault, interim, rest period, gap, split, dissipate, turning point, rift, retire, crack up, rest, disrupt, resolve, fragmentize, fault, interregnum, hole, breaking, box, fracture, fragment, continue, ambush, open frame, inlet, calve, happy chance, fork, scatter, recessional, deferral, jailbreak, bay, prisonbreak, adjourn

interrupt (part of speech: verb)

pause, delay, stop, relieve, stay, reprieve, interrupt, snag, postpone, break, suspend

nook (part of speech: noun)

cove, cranny, corner, alcove, cubbyhole, nook, niche

regress (part of speech: verb)

decline, relapse, return, regress, backslide

interruption (part of speech: noun)

interruption, hiatus, relief, interval, postponement, stoppage, hitch, interlude, suspension

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