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recessesnounpl. of recess a hollowed-out space in a wallthe curator placed the large vase in one of the recesses of the gallery wall alcoves, niches, nooks corners, crannies, cubbyholescubiclesdents, embrasures, indentations, indents, indenturesambries, housings, shrines 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 breaks, holidays(chiefly British), hols(British), leaves, vacations sabbaticalsfurloughs, libertiesbreathers, relaxations, respites, restsinterims, intermissions, intervalsfeasts, holy days, legal holidays a momentary halt in an activitythe judge called for a brief recess so that the witness could regain her composure breaks, breathers, breaths, interruptions, lulls, pauses time-outsinterims, interludes, intermissions, intervals, respites, restscessations, discontinuances, downtimes, endings, expirations, hitches, lapses, stoppages, terminationsabeyances, moratoriums(or moratoria), surceases, suspensionsdiscontinuities, gaps, hiatuses continuations, endurances, persistences, progresses, progressionsextensions, prolongations a sunken area forming a separate spacedecided to camp in a sandy recess where the beach met the forest cavities, concavities, dents, depressions, dints, holes, hollows, indentations, indentures, pits burrows, caverns, caves, ditches, excavations, furrows, grooves, gutters, trenches, troughsbasins, bowls, valleysalcoves, clefts, niches, nooks, openings, socketsalveoli, dimples, gouges, impressions, imprints, notches, pocketsboreholes, chuckholes, craters, postholes, potholes, sinkholes, wallows, water holes, wellsabysses, chasms, gulfs, vacuities, vacuums(or vacua), voids bulges, cambers, convexities, juts, projections, protrusions, protuberances hills, mounds, risesbumps, bunches, humps, lumps, pimples, swellings, swells, tumors to bring to a formal close for a period of timethe judge recessed the court for lunch adjourns, prorogates, prorogues, suspends breaks off, disbands, discontinues, disperses, intermits, interruptsdefers, holds off, postpones, puts off, reserves, shelves, tablesdissolves, ends, halts, stops, terminatesbreaks up, closes, concludes, winds up, wraps upaborts, calls, calls off, drops, recalls, repeals, rescinds, revokesabrogates, annuls, invalidates, negates, nullifies, quashes, voids inaugurates, launches, openscarries on, continues, draws out, extends, proceeds, prolongsrenews, reopens, resumesassembles, calls, convenes, convokes, musters, rallies, summons |