recur
Meanings
Verb
- happen or occur again
- "This is a recurring story"
- return in thought or speech to something
- have recourse to
- Of an event, situation, etc.: to appear or happen again, especially repeatedly.
- Of an event, situation, etc.: to appear or happen again, especially repeatedly.
- Of a disease or symptom: to happen again, especially repeatedly or after a remission or an apparent recovery.
- Of a memory, thought, etc.: to come to the mind again.
- To speak, think, or write about something again; to go back or return to a memory, a subject, etc.
- Followed by to, or (Scotland, obsolete) on or upon: to have recourse to someone or something for assistance, support, etc.; to appeal, to resort, to turn to.
- Synonym of recurse (“to execute a procedure recursively”).
- Often in the form recurring following a number: of a numeral or group of numerals in a decimal fraction: to repeat indefinitely.
- Followed by into or to: to go to a place again; to return.
- Followed by into or to: To go back to doing an activity, or to using a thing; to return.
- Followed by to: to go to a place; to resort.
- Followed by from: to move or run back from something; to recede, to withdraw.
Origin / Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin recurrō (“to hurry or run back; to return, revert”), from re- (prefix meaning ‘back, backwards’) + currō (“to hasten, hurry; to move, travel; to run”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ḱers- (“to run”)).
cognates
* Anglo-Norman recurre, recorre (“to have recourse to”)
* Catalan recórrer
* Italian ricorrer
* Old French recourir (Middle French recourir; modern French recourir (“to have recourse to; to run again; to run back”))
* Old Occitan recorre
* Portuguese recorrer
* Spanish recorrer
Synonyms
fall back, go back, recourse, recrudesce, recur, recurse, rehappen, reoccur, repeat, resort
Scrabble Score: 7
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