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recessnoun a hollowed-out space in a wallthe curator placed the large vase in one of the recesses of the gallery wall alcove, niche, nook corner, cranny, cubbyholecubicledent, embrasure, indent, indentation, indentureambry, housing, shrine a period during which the usual routine of school or work is suspendedthe couple goes to Florida every January for a month-long recess from the rigors of winter break, holiday(chiefly British), hols(British), leave, vacation sabbaticalfurlough, libertybreather, relaxation, respite, restinterim, intermission, intervalfeast, holy day, legal holidayidling, loafing, lounging, slacking a momentary halt in an activitythe judge called for a brief recess so that the witness could regain her composure break, breath, breather, interruption, lull, pause time-outinterim, interlude, intermission, interval, respite, restcessation, discontinuance, downtime, ending, expiration, finishing, hitch, lapse, stoppage, stopping, terminationabeyance, moratorium, surcease, suspensiondiscontinuity, gap, hiatus continuation, endurance, persistence, progress, progressionextension, prolongation a sunken area forming a separate spacedecided to camp in a sandy recess where the beach met the forest cavity, concavity, dent, depression, dint, hole, hollow, indentation, indenture, pit burrow, cave, cavern, ditch, excavation, furrow, groove, gutter, trench, troughbasin, bowl, valleyalcove, cleft, niche, nook, opening, socketalveolus, dimple, gouge, impression, imprint, notch, pocketborehole, chuckhole, crater, posthole, pothole, sinkhole, wallow, water hole, wellabyss, chasm, gulf, vacuity, vacuum, void bulge, camber, convexity, jut, projection, protrusion, protuberance hill, mound, risebump, bunch, hump, lump, pimple, swell, swelling, tumor to bring to a formal close for a period of timethe judge recessed the court for lunch adjourn, prorogate, prorogue, suspend break off, disband, discontinue, disperse, intermit, interruptdefer, hold off, postpone, put off, reserve, shelve, tabledissolve, end, halt, stop, terminatebreak up, close, conclude, wind up, wrap upabort, call, call off, drop, recall, repeal, rescind, revokeabrogate, annul, invalidate, negate, nullify, quash, void inaugurate, launch, opencarry on, continue, draw out, extend, proceed, prolongrenew, reopen, resumeassemble, call, convene, convoke, muster, rally, summon in 1531 |