RECOMMENCE

Definitions: RECOMMENCE

RECOMMENCE

Intransitive verb

1. To begin anew to be; to act again as.

2. To commence or begin again.

Transitive verb

1. To commence again or anew.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Date "RECOMMENCE" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1781. (references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Beginning	Begin again, begin de novo; start afresh, make a fresh start, take it from the top, shuffle the cards, reshuffle the cards, resume, recommence.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: RECOMMENCE

English words defined with "RECOMMENCE": Al segno. (references)

Non-English Usage: "RECOMMENCE" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses.

French (recommences).

Domain	Title
Books	La vie recommence � 40 [i.e. quarante] ans (reference) (more book examples)
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Title	Author	Quote
Les Miserables	Hugo, Victor	The wall seems ready to recommence the combat.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Subject	Topic	Quote
Trade	Kenya	It is anticipated that the AFDB will recommence concessionary lending operations in the near future. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Speaker	Term	Phrase(s)
James Monroe	1817-1825	From past experience and the best information respecting the views of those powers it is distinctly understood that should our squadron be withdrawn they would soon recommence their hostilities and depredations upon our commerce.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

"RECOMMENCE" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 88.89% of the time. "RECOMMENCE" is used about 36 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Lexical Verb (infinitive)	88.89%	32	61,292
Lexical Verb (base form)	11.11%	4	175,879
Total	100.00%	36	N/A

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "RECOMMENCE"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		rifilloj (continue, reopen, resume). (various references)

Chinese		重新开始 (Resumed, Resuming). (various references)

Danish		desuden kan gasudviklingen senere begynde igen under opsmeltningen,hvis stoerkningen skete under hoejt tryk og med en svag deoxydation med begraenset CO-udskillelse;dette forekommer under sammensvejsningen af den sejgrede zone i valsede produkter udfra fl (accompanied by weak deoxidation in the form of a limited evolution of CO, furthermore, then effervescence may recommence later during remelting ; this occurs during the welding of the segregated zone of products rolled from capped ingots, when solidification takes place under high pressure). (various references)

Dutch		bovendien kan het kookblazen later,tijdens opnieuw smelten,weer beginnen als het stollen onder hoge druk en met een lichte desoxydatie door een beperkte CO-vorming plaatsvond;dit geschiedt tijdens het lassen van de uitgescheiden zone van gewalste produkte (accompanied by weak deoxidation in the form of a limited evolution of CO, furthermore, then effervescence may recommence later during remelting ; this occurs during the welding of the segregated zone of products rolled from capped ingots, when solidification takes place under high pressure). (various references)

French		recommencez, recommencent, recommençons. (various references)

German		wieder beginnen (restart, resume, to recommence). (various references)

Greek		όταν η στερεοποίηση πραγματοποιείται υπό μεγάλη πίεση,συνοδευόμενη από ασθενή αποξείδωση με την μορφή περιορισμένης απελευθέρωσης του CO,� (then effervescence may recommence later during remelting ; this occurs during the welding of the segregated zone of products rolled from capped ingots). (various references)

Hungarian		újrakezdődik (to recommence), újrakezd (reset, to recommence, to restart, to resume, to return to the charge). (various references)

Italian		ricominciare (begin again, restart, resume, start again, start over). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		遣り直す (to do over again, to recommence, to redo, to remake, to resume, to start over), やり直す (to do over again, to recommence, to redo, to remake, to resume, to start over). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		やりなおす (to do over again, to recommence, to redo, to remake, to resume, to start over). (various references)

Manx		goaill toshiaght reesht (resume), aahoshiaghey (restart, resumption). (various references)

Pig Latin		ecommenceray

Portuguese		além disso quando a solidificação se faz sob forte pressão com uma fraca desoxidação por libertação limitada de CO,então a efervescência pode recomeçar posteriormente durante uma refusão;isto produz-se durante a soldadura da zona segregada dos (accompanied by weak deoxidation in the form of a limited evolution of CO, furthermore, then effervescence may recommence later during remelting ; this occurs during the welding of the segregated zone of products rolled from capped ingots, when solidification takes place under high pressure). (various references)

Romanian		reîncepe (reassume, recrudesce, renew, reopen, restart, resume). (various references)

Russian		снова начать. (various references)

Spanish		recomenzar. (various references)

Swedish		börja på nytt (reopen). (various references)

Ukranian		знову почати. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	repeto. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "RECOMMENCE": recommenced, recommencement, recommencements, recommences. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"RECOMMENCE" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: gekommen, recomen, recomme, recommen, recompence. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "c-c-e-e-e-m-m-n-o-r"
	-1 letter: commencer.
	-2 letters: commence, commerce.
	-4 letters: coerce, encore, mermen, moreen.
	-5 letters: comer, creme, crone, emcee, emeer, emmer, enorm, recce, recon.
	Words containing the letters "c-c-e-e-e-m-m-n-o-r"
	+1 letter: recommenced, recommences.
	+4 letters: recommencement.
	+5 letters: recommencements.
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