recur

Meaning

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

Synonyms

repeat

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reappear

return

go back

come back

relapse

happen again

revert

resort

fall back

have recourse

break out again

recurrence

recurrent

re-emerge

reiterate

rejoin

rendition

repetition

representation

reproduction

appeal

resume

resurface

resurgence

retrogress

take up

trace back

turn

revert to

retrovert

run again

repullulate

rerun

apply

backdate

be

fall

flare up

go crazy

haunt

linger

loiter

occur

reconstruction

Translations

ricorrere

ripetersi

repetirse

ανατρέχω

reocorrer

επανέρχομαι

wiederkehren

recorrer

acontecer de novo

ξανασυμβαίνω

récidiver

كرر

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خرج رائحة كريه

قال ثانية

تكرر

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ɹɪˈkɜː(ɹ)/

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