| VERB | change | adjourn, recess, break up | close at the end of a session |
|---|---|---|---|
| social | adjourn, withdraw, retire | break from a meeting or gathering |
| Sounds | ahjher'n | |
|---|---|---|
| Rhymes | andiron ... yearn: 61 rhymes with ern... | |
| Meaning | Close at the end of a session. | |
|---|---|---|
| Pattern | Somebody ----s; Somebody ----s something | |
| Example | "The court adjourned" | |
| Synonyms | recess, break up | |
| Broader | end, stop, finish, terminate, cease | Have an end, in a temporal, spatial, or quantitative sense |
| Spanish | aplazar, posponer | |
| Catalan | ajornar, aplaçar | |
| Nouns | adjournment | the termination of a meeting |
| Meaning | break from a meeting or gathering. | |
|---|---|---|
| Pattern | Somebody ----s something | |
| Example | "We adjourned for lunch" | |
| Synonyms | withdraw, retire | |
| Entails | meet, gather, assemble, forgather, foregather | Collect in one place |
| Narrower | prorogue | adjourn by royal prerogative |
| Broader | close up, close, fold, shut down, close down | Cease to operate or cause to cease operating |
| Similar to | seclude, sequester, sequestrate, withdraw | Keep away from others |
| Spanish | aplazar, retirarse, retirar, suspender una sesión, suspender | |
| Nouns | adjournment | the act of postponing to another time or place |
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