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recesses

/ri-ses, ree-ses/US // rɪˈsɛs, ˈri sɛs //

凹槽,凹处,凹洞,凹陷

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : temporary withdrawal or cessation from the usual work or activity.
    • : a period of such withdrawal.
    • : a receding part or space, as a bay or alcove in a room.
    • : an indentation in a line or extent of coast, hills, forest, etc.
    • : recesses, a secluded or inner area or part: in the recesses of the palace.
v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to place or set in a recess.
    • : to set or form as or like a recess; make a recess or recesses in: to recess a wall.
    • : to suspend or defer for a recess: to recess the Senate.
v.无主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to take a recess.

Synonyms & Antonyms

nounniche, corner

Examples

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

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

  • Welcome to MorbidReality, one of the darkest recesses of humanity featuring some of the most disturbing content on the Internet.

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

  • The answer to that question is known only in the deep recesses of the mind of the killer.

  • It was then just after seven o'clock, and the October evening was drawing in with chill airs from the recesses of the forest.

  • Their deeper recesses were given up to owls and bats, and nearer the entrance the prowling fox or jackal found a covert.

  • In their dark recesses were concocted those treasons, stratagems, and spoils that desolated the land.

  • In one of these dark recesses the wall was pierced, well up toward the Carey street end.

  • Shadow after shadow crept down the walls of the chasm, blurred its projections, darkened its faces, and crowded its recesses.