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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 The state of being withdrawn; seclusion; privacy.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
Usage examples:
- The two rooms formed practically but one, being separated only by a large recess without folding- doors, or 'portires'. - "Jacqueline, v1", Th. Bentzon (Mme. Blanc).
- We were standing, he and I, in the recess of one of the windows, facing one another. - "In a Glass Darkly, v. 3/3", Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu.
- " I want it to eat at recess," explained the little fellow. - "The Bobbsey Twins in the Great West", Laura Lee Hope.