English Explanatory Dictionary

recur

English dictionary entry

Meanings

verb
  1. Of an event, situation, etc.: to appear or happen again, especially repeatedly.
  2. Of a disease or symptom: to happen again, especially repeatedly or after a remission or an apparent recovery.
  3. Of a memory, thought, etc.: to come to the mind again.
  4. To speak, think, or write about something again; to go back or return to a memory, a subject, etc.
  5. 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.
  6. Synonym of recurse (“to execute a procedure recursively”).
  7. Often in the form recurring following a number: of a numeral or group of numerals in a decimal fraction: to repeat indefinitely.
  8. Followed by into or to: to go to a place again; to return.
  9. Followed by into or to: To go back to doing an activity, or to using a thing; to return.
  10. Followed by to: to go to a place; to resort.
  11. Followed by from: to move or run back from something; to recede, to withdraw.

Pronunciation

/ɹɪˈkɜː/ LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-recur.wav /ɹɪˈkɜɹ/ /ɹɪˈkɛː/ /ɹɪˈkɜː(ɹ)/ /ɹɪˈkeː/ /ɹɪˈkøː/ /ɹɪˈkʌr/

Word forms

recur recurs recurring recurred no-table-tags glossary recurrest recurredst recurreth

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

recrudesce recourse recur rehappen reoccur repeat recurse

Antonyms

digress

Derived words

curiously recurring template pattern non-recurring recurrable recurred recurrence recurrent recurrer recurring

Translations

Bulgarian: повтарям се Czech: opakovat se Czech: vracet se Czech: znovu se objevovat Dutch: recidiveren Esperanto: reokazi Finnish: toistua Finnish: uusiutua French: réapparaître French: resurvenir French: revenir Galician: repetir Georgian: ხელახლა ხდება Greek: επαναλαμβάνομαι Hungarian: megismétlődik Hungarian: újból megtörténik Hungarian: újra megtörténik Irish: athfhill Irish: fill Japanese: ぶり返す Japanese: 再発する Manx: aahaghyr Māori: kakai Old English: aġēnġeċyrran Portuguese: reocorrer Spanish: repetirse Spanish: volver a acontecer Spanish: acaecer de nuevo Walloon: rissorvini Walloon: rivni
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