Thesaurus: recess

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1. n. A withdrawing or retiring; a moving back; retreat; as, the recess of the tides.
2. n. The state of being withdrawn; seclusion; privacy.
3. n. Remission or suspension of business or procedure; intermission, as of a legislative body, court, or school.
4. n. Part of a room formed by the receding of the wall, as an alcove, niche, etc.
5. n. A place of retirement, retreat, secrecy, or seclusion.
6. n. Secret or abstruse part; as, the difficulties and recesses of science.
7. n. A sinus.
8. v. t. To make a recess in; as, to recess a wall.
9. n. A decree of the imperial diet of the old German empire.
10. n. a state of abeyance or suspended business
11. n. a small concavity
12. n. an arm off of a larger body of water (often between rocky headlands)