Definitions for recesses

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recesses re·cess

Spelling: [ri-ses, ree-ses]

IPA: /rɪˈsɛs, ˈri sɛs/

Recesses is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 74 anagrams from letters in recesses (ceeersss).

Definitions for recesses

noun

1. temporary withdrawal or cessation from the usual work or activity.
2. a period of such withdrawal.
3. a receding part or space, as a bay or alcove in a room.
4. an indentation in a line or extent of coast, hills, forest, etc.
5. recesses, a secluded or inner area or part:

verb (used with object)

1. to place or set in a recess.
2. to set or form as or like a recess; make a recess or recesses in:
3. to suspend or defer for a recess:

verb (used without object)

1. to take a recess.

Origin of recesses

1510-20; Latin recessus a withdrawal, receding part, equivalent to recēd(ere) to recede¹ + -tus suffix of v. action, with dt > ss

Examples for recesses

At sides masonry with recesses; in the R. centre a great doorway.

At night she floated dark in all her recesses, and full of fears.

We can neither plumb the depths nor pierce the shades of its recesses.

But a still greater cunning lurked in the recesses of the Indian mind.

Pictures of pets, pictures of relatives in coffins, pictures of intimate moments otherwise discarded in the recesses of memory.

In the recesses of Concordia you will feel really, really small.

Fortunately, there was another word for quick that popped from the recesses of his memory.

So musing, he lit his pipe and examined the recesses beneath the driver's seat.

The unfortunate Boabdil plunged once more amidst the recesses of the Alhambra.

We'll have to be stayin' more together mornin's and noons and recesses, so we will.