(countable) A depressed, hollow, or indented space; also, a hole or opening.
(countable, uncountable) A depressed, hollow, or indented space; also, a hole or opening.
(countable, plural-normally, slang, uncountable) A depressed, hollow, or indented space; also, a hole or opening.
(countable) A hidden, innermost, or inaccessible place or part of a place.
(archaic, countable, uncountable) A hidden, innermost, or inaccessible place or part of a place.
(countable, figuratively, plural-normally, uncountable) A hidden, innermost, or inaccessible place or part of a place.
(countable) A temporary stoppage of an activity; a break, a pause.
(countable, uncountable) A temporary stoppage of an activity; a break, a pause.
(Australia, British, Canada, Philippines, US, countable, uncountable) A temporary stoppage of an activity; a break, a pause.
(archaic, countable) An act of retiring or withdrawing; a moving back.
(countable, historical) A decree or resolution of the diet of the Holy Roman Empire or the Hanseatic League.
(countable, obsolete) An act of retiring or withdrawing from public life, society, etc.; also, an act of living in retirement or seclusion, or a period of such retirement or seclusion.
(countable, obsolete, uncountable) Leisure, relaxation.
(countable, obsolete, uncountable) The state of being withdrawn.
(countable, figuratively, obsolete) A departure from a norm or position.
(countable, figuratively, obsolete) A time interval during which something ceases; an interruption, a respite.
(countable) An overall-concave, reentrant section of a sinuous fold and thrust belt, thrust sheet, or a single thrust fault, caused by one or more of: deformation (folding and faulting) of strata and geologic structures during orogenesis, differences in the angle of critical taper during orogenesis, or differing erosional level of the present geomorphological surface.

Of a place or time: distant, remote.

(transitive) To position (something) a distance behind another thing; to set back.
(often, transitive) To make a recess (noun sense 1 and sense 1.1) in (something).
(also, often, reflexive, transitive) Often preceded by in or into: to inset (something) into a recess or niche.
(figuratively, transitive) To conceal, to hide.
(US, transitive) To temporarily suspend (a meeting, the proceedings of an official body, etc.).
(US, informal, transitive) To make a recess appointment in respect of (someone).
(US, intransitive) Of a meeting, the proceedings of an official body, etc.: to adjourn, to take a break.
(US, intransitive) Of an official body: to suspend proceedings for a period of time.

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