Recess is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for RECESS in dictionary:

VERB:
• to place in a hollow
• attach (a fitment) by setting it back into the wall or surface to which it is fixed
• (of formal proceedings) be temporarily suspended
• suspend (formal proceedings) temporarily
• (of an official body) suspend its proceedings for a period of time
• To make a recess in; as, to recess a wall.
• put into a recess
• close at the end of a session
• place or set (something) in a recess
NOUN:
• a small space created by building part of a wall further back from the rest
• a hollow space inside something
• a remote, secluded, or secret place
• a period of time when the proceedings of a parliament, committee, court of law, or other official body are temporarily suspended
• a break between school classes
• niche or alcove
• A withdrawing or retiring; a moving back; retreat; as, the recess of the tides.
• The state of being withdrawn; seclusion; privacy.
• Remission or suspension of business or procedure; intermission, as of a legislative body, court, or school.
• Part of a room formed by the receding of the wall, as an alcove, niche, etc.
• A place of retirement, retreat, secrecy, or seclusion.
• Secret or abstruse part; as, the difficulties and recesses of science.
• A sinus.
• A decree of the imperial diet of the old German empire.
• a state of abeyance or suspended business
• a small concavity
• an arm off of a larger body of water (often between rocky headlands)
• an enclosure that is set back or indented
• a pause from doing something (as work)
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to place in a receding space or hollow

Words related to RECESS

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Words that contain RECESS

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How to use RECESS in a sentence

• The light appeared in the dim recess of the wardrobe.
• The Duke of Clarence moved that the House should not proceed in the consideration of the Slave Trade till after the Easter recess.
• In the recess behind the draperies the chair in which his excellency was bound, creaked.
• A scroll hung in an illuminated recess at one end of the room.
• Here they were surprised and pleased to see a large bower built, in front of a little sort of cavern or recess in the rock.
• The recess behind the counter in which his mattress was thrust, looked like a grave.
• From the recess formed by a shop door he peered out at Gray, where the light of a street lamp fell upon him, studying his face, his movements, with unrelaxing vigilance.
• The Committee of the States, however, during the recess, will have time to digest it thoroughly, if Congress will fix some general principles for their government.
• It was housed in a recess in the wall of the traveling trench, and was open to the sky.
• Looking to the window, he saw the figure of an unhappy female whom he had betrayed, and who in consequence had committed suicide, standing in the window recess.
• In consequence of the inquiries of these commissioners a mass of information had been obtained, which he hoped to be able to lay before the house soon after the Christmas recess.
• Early in April, the Easter recess being all over, Lady Monk gave a grand party in London.
• For slight offences the boys were deprived of their recess or compelled to study for an hour after the school was dismissed.
• There was apparently no bench in the interior, but on the western or northwestern side there is a bench-like recess of about a foot which occupies 7 feet of the circumference.
• It occupies the middle third of a large recess in the main wall of the kiva, and is connected at its outer end with a vertical square shaft about a foot wide.
• The recess hour arrived while they were still at school.
• Jimmie Dale snapped the case shut, returned it to its recess, and from another took out a black silk mask.
• And drawing a house-cloth from a mysterious recess, she went on her knees in a practical prayer for pardon.
• One day, at the morning recess, a group of boys were talking about the Mexican War.
• At the recess, the lawyers crowded about Bart to congratulate him for his defense, among whom Kelly was the foremost.
• They had agreed that no recess of more than thirty minutes should be taken until a decision had been reached.
• The writer knows of a fourth grade in which during the past year a boy was absent from the room after recess.
• Congress was then in recess, and the sudden overthrow of the rebellion required speedy action.
• During a recess, which preceded the hour when the man-of-all-work took us to the Charlemagne Lyceum, the well-to-do pupils used to breakfast with the porter, named Doisy.
• In this recess there suddenly appeared a scene, not as though it were cast by a lantern on the wall, but as if the wall were broken down, and showed a room beyond.
• But let us turn to the facts, as stated in the house of lords on the 2nd of May, when the peers met after the Easter recess.
• The Senate adjourned or took a recess on Thursday afternoon, May 17, until to-day, the 21st of May.

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