recur
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[edit] Etymology
From Latin recurro (“run back”)
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recur (third-person singular simple present recurs, present participle recurring, simple past and past participle recurred)
- (now rare) To have recourse (to) someone or something for assistance, support etc.
- 1891, Mary Noailles Murfree, In the "Stranger People's" Country, Nebraska 2005, p. 43:
- 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 no more.
- 1891, Mary Noailles Murfree, In the "Stranger People's" Country, Nebraska 2005, p. 43:
- (intransitive) To happen again.
- The theme of the prodigal son recurs later in the third act.
- (intransitive, computing) To recurse.
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to happen again
to recurse — see recurse
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