Crossword-Solution: RECESS
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Recess | n. | A withdrawing or retiring; a moving back; retreat; as, the recess of the tides. |
| Recess | n. | The state of being withdrawn; seclusion; privacy. |
| Recess | n. | Remission or suspension of business or procedure; intermission, as of a legislative body, court, or school. |
| Recess | n. | Part of a room formed by the receding of the wall, as an alcove, niche, etc. |
| Recess | n. | A place of retirement, retreat, secrecy, or seclusion. |
| Recess | n. | Secret or abstruse part; as, the difficulties and recesses of science. |
| Recess | n. | A sinus. |
| Recess | v. t. | To make a recess in; as, to recess a wall. |
| Recess | n. | A decree of the imperial diet of the old German empire. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| RECESS | anagram | CESSER, CRESSE, SCREES |
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One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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Sentences with RECESS (5)
The Seats of the Senators of the first Class shall be vacated at the expiration of the second Year, of the second Class at the expiration of the fourth Year, and of the third Class at the expiration of the sixth Year, so that one third may be chosen every second Year; and if vacancies happen by Resignation, or otherwise, during the recess of the Legislature of any State, the Executive thereof may make temporary Appointments until the next meeting of the Legislature, which shall then fill such Vacancies.
But there was one recess in the wall, no larger than a bird-cage, which was the private apartment of Tinker Bell.
But far within And in thir own dimensions like themselves The great Seraphic Lords and Cherubim In close recess and secret conclave sat A thousand Demy-Gods on golden seat’s, Frequent and full.
The central space, together with the recess at one end, was emptied of all incumbrances, and this area, covering about two-thirds of the whole, was appropriated for the gathering, the remaining end, which was piled to the ceiling with oats, being screened off with sail-cloth.
Tramps slouched into the recess and struck matches on the panels; children kept shop upon the steps; the schoolboy had tried his knife on the mouldings; and for close on a generation, no one had appeared to drive away these random visitors or to repair their ravages.
Quotes with RECESS (3)
I could still feel the ghost of him hovering in the quiet, dark recess of my heart. It was as if he was just waiting for me to be lonely, or to let my guard down, so that he could surface and fill my mind again with thoughts of him.
Sharing secrets is the way in which women tie themselves together, for it reveals complicity and trust. Holding secrets shows trustworthiness and a sort of quite defiance. It is a natural thing for a female to hold secrets within her breast until the time is ripe to release them. Does it not follow the way in which her body is formed? A woman is made with that dark and mysterious recess that can grow a child safely until the child is ready to come out onto the birthing bed. A…
There is a picture of me in their heads, a picture of someone I don't know yet. She is not the chubby girl with the braces and bad perm. She is not the girl hiding in the bathroom at recess. She is someone new, a blank slate they have named beautiful. That is what I am now: beautiful, with this new body and face and hair and clothes. Beautiful, with this erasing of history.
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Appears in: AARP, Boston Globe, Chicago Tribune, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Rock & Roll, Slate, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.
Used 230 times in crossword archives (1943–2024).