recess

• close at the end of a session
• a pause from doing something (as work)
• a small concavity
• a state of abeyance or suspended business
• an arm off of a larger body of water (often between rocky headlands)
• an enclosure that is set back or indented
• put into a recess
• make a recess in
• A withdrawing or retiring
• The state of being withdrawn
• Remission or suspension of business or procedure
• 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
• A sinus
• To make a recess in
• A decree of the imperial diet of the old German empire
• Residential area (city, town, village) in Jamaica in Saint Catherine

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