Dictionary Entry
recess
recess is a 6-letter English word with 17 senses as noun, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A withdrawing or retiring; a moving back; retreat; as, the recess of the tides. Face value is 8 in Scrabble and 9 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
6 letters · Scrabble 8 · Words With Friends 9 · 17 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
A withdrawing or retiring; a moving back; retreat; as, the recess of the tides.
- 2noun
The state of being withdrawn; seclusion; privacy.
- 3noun
Remission or suspension of business or procedure; intermission, as of a legislative body, court, or school.
- 4noun
Part of a room formed by the receding of the wall, as an alcove, niche, etc.
- 5noun
A place of retirement, retreat, secrecy, or seclusion.
- 6noun
Secret or abstruse part; as, the difficulties and recesses of science.
- 7noun
A sinus.
- 8transitive verb
To make a recess in; as, to recess a wall.
- 9noun
A decree of the imperial diet of the old German empire.
- 10noun
a pause from doing something (as work)
"we took a 10-minute break"
"he took time out to recuperate"
- 11noun
an enclosure that is set back or indented
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- 12noun
an arm off of a larger body of water (often between rocky headlands)
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- 13noun
a small concavity
- 14noun
a state of abeyance or suspended business
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- 15verb
close at the end of a session
"The court adjourned"
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- 16verb
make a recess in
"recess the piece of wood"
- 17verb
put into a recess
"recess lights"
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