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recess

English

  1. 🔊 an enclosure that is set back or indented
  2. 🔊 a small concavity
  3. 🔊 a pause from doing something (as work)
    “we took a 10-minute break”
  4. 🔊 an arm off of a larger body of water (often between rocky headlands)
  5. 🔊 a state of abeyance or suspended business
  6. 🔊 make a recess in
    “recess the piece of wood”
  7. 🔊 put into a recess
    “recess lights”
  8. 🔊 close at the end of a session
    “The court adjourned”

Spanish

  1. 🔊 intervalo recess
  2. 🔊 receso recess, break
  3. 🔊 recreo recess, break

Similar words

respite break time out niche inlet recession niche corner deferral adjourn break up jim crow abeyance adjourn adytum alcove apartheid apartness ashram asylum bay bolt-hole bosom break