Recur

  • 21recur — /riˈkɜ / (say ree ker), /rə / (say ruh ) verb (i) (recurred, recurring) 1. to occur again, as an event, experience, etc. 2. to return to the mind: recurring ideas. 3. to come up again for consideration, as a question. 4. to return in action,… …

  • 22recur, reoccur — These words are interchangeable in the meaning of to occur again : That was a dreadful experience which I hope will not recur (or reoccur). Recur, more widely used than reoccur, implies the repetition more than once of an event or experience,… …

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  • 23recur — intransitive verb (recurred; recurring) Etymology: Middle English recurren to return, from Latin recurrere, literally, to run back, from re + currere to run more at car Date: 1529 1. to have recourse ; resort 2. to go back in thought or discourse …

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  • 24recur — /ri kerr /, v.i., recurred, recurring. 1. to occur again, as an event, experience, etc. 2. to return to the mind: The idea kept recurring. 3. to come up again for consideration, as a question. 4. to have recourse. [1610 20; earlier: to recede < L …

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  • 25recur — verb /ɹɪˈkəː/ a) To have recourse (to) someone or something for assistance, support etc. She only replied with a laugh, and he evidently deemed futile the bid for sympathy on the score of religious or irreligious fellowship, for he recurred to it …

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  • 26recur — Synonyms and related words: alternate, be here again, circle, come again, come and go, come around, come back, come round, come round again, come up again, continue, cycle, echo, go back, intermit, keep coming, occur often, oscillate, pulsate,&#8230; …

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  • 27recur — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) v. return, come back, reoccur, repeat, intermit, revert. See repetition. II (Roget s IV) v. Syn. return, reappear, crop up again; see happen 2 , repeat 2 . III (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) v. repeat,&#8230; …

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  • 28recur — re·cur || rɪ kÉœr / kɜː v. happen again, repeat; come to mind again; reappear, resurface …

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  • 29recur — curer …

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  • 30recur — v. n. 1. Return, come back, come again, be repeated. 2. Run in the mind, run in one s head, return to the thought. 3. Resort, revert, have recourse, go for help …

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