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recess: an enclosure that is set back or indented; a small concavity; make a recess in; "recess the piece of wood"; put into a recess; "recess lights"

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take five collapse: take a break for five minutes; "The musicians took five during the rehearsal"

hold over collapse: intimidate somebody (with a threat); "She was holding it over him"; continue a term of office past the normal period of time; keep in a position or state from an earlier period of time

sleep on collapse

adjourn collapse: close at the end of a session; "The court adjourned"; break from a meeting or gathering; "We adjourned for lunch"; "The men retired to the library"

postpone collapse: hold back to a later time; "let's postpone the exam"

call it a day collapse

hesitate collapse: pause or hold back in uncertainty or unwillingness; "Authorities hesitate to quote exact figures"; interrupt temporarily an activity before continuing; "The speaker paused"

stand over collapse

prolong collapse: lengthen in time; cause to be or last longer; "We prolonged our stay"; "She extended her visit by another day"; "The meeting was drawn out until midnight"; lengthen or extend in duration or space; "We sustained the diplomatic negotiations as long as possible"; "prolong the treatment of the patient"; "keep up the good work"

intermit collapse

protract collapse

lay over collapse: interrupt a journey temporarily, e.g., overnight; "We had to stop over in Venezuela on our flight back from Brazil"

shelve collapse: place on a shelf; "shelve books"

defer collapse

let up collapse

stave off collapse

secret place collapse

cubicle collapse

push aside collapse: push out of the way

hermitage collapse: the abode of a hermit

ivory tower collapse: a state of mind that is discussed as if it were a place; "he lived in the ivory tower of speculation"; "they viewed universities as ivory towers"

stretch out collapse

lay by collapse

hang fire collapse

hole in the wall collapse

alcove collapse: a small recess opening off a larger room

snuggery collapse

lay aside collapse

put aside collapse

sanctum collapse: a place of inviolable privacy; "he withdrew to his sanctum sanctorum, where the children could never go"

dimple collapse: a small natural hollow in the cheek or chin; "His dimple appeared whenever he smiled"; any slight depression in a surface; "there are approximately 336 dimples on a golf ball"; produce dimples while smiling; "The child dimpled up to the adults"; mark with, or as if with, dimples; "drops dimpled the smooth stream"

holy of holies collapse: (Judaism) sanctuary comprised of the innermost chamber of the Tabernacle in the temple of Solomon where the Ark of the Covenant was kept; (figurative) something regarded as sacred or inviolable; "every politician fears to touch that holy of holies, the Social Security System"

drag out collapse

quiet spell collapse

hold off collapse: resist and fight to a standoff; "Dallas had enough of a lead to hold the Broncos off"

intervene collapse: occur between other event or between certain points of time; "the war intervened between the birth of her two children"; get involved, so as to alter or hinder an action, or through force or threat of force; "Why did the U.S. not intervene earlier in WW II?"; be placed or located between other things or extend between spaces and events; "This interludes intervenes between the two movements"; "Eight days intervened"

oriel collapse: a projecting bay window corbeled or cantilevered out from a wall

happy hour collapse: the time of day when a bar sells alcoholic drinks at a reduced price

lay off collapse

niche collapse: (ecology) the status of an organism within its environment and community (affecting its survival as a species); a position particularly well suited to the person who occupies it; "he found his niche in the academic world"

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