Recidivate

Definition: Recidivate

Recidivate

Verb

1. Go back to bad behavior; "Those who recidivate are often minor criminals".

Etymology: Recidivate \Re*cid"i*vate\, intransitive verb. [from Late Latin expression recidivare. See Recidivous.]. (Websters 1913)

Synonyms: Recidivate

Synonyms: fall back (v), lapse (v), regress (v), relapse (v), retrogress (v). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Relapse	Verb: relapse, lapse; fall back, slide back, sink back; return; retrograde; recidivate; fall off again.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Recidivate

English words defined with "recidivate": fall back ♦ lapse ♦ regress, relapse, retrogress. (references)

Language		Translations for "recidivate"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Hungarian		visszaesik (fall back, retrogress, to ebb, to fall back, to lapse back, to recidivate, to relapse, to retrograde). (various references)

Pig Latin		ecidivateray
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Misspellings
	"Recidivate" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: recidivant, recitivate. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Words rhyming with "recidivate" (pronounced 'Re*cid"i*vate'): Activate, AEstivate, Aggravate, Bovate, Corrivate, Cultivate, Excavate, Indepravate, innervate, Larvate, motivate, Objectivate, Oblong-ovate, Obovate, Ovate, Pregravate, Private, renovate, Rhomboid-ovate, salivate, Semiovate, Silvate, Subovate, Sullevate, Sylvate, Tricurvate, Uvate. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-c-d-e-e-i-i-r-t-v"
	-1 letter: diaeretic, directive.
	-2 letters: cavitied, creative, derivate, dieretic, ideative, raticide, reactive, vaticide.
	-3 letters: averted, catered, cerated, created, deciare, deviate, dictier, eidetic, evicted, reacted, recited, riveted, tierced, triacid, triadic, verdict, veridic.
	-4 letters: active, advect, advert, advice, aeried, airted, caried, carted, carved, cerate, cerite, cervid, citied, crated, craved, create, credit, dative, dearie, decare, deceit, deicer, derate, derive, device, dicier, dieter, direct, divert, ecarte, evader, evited, iatric, ideate, reaved, recite, redact, redate, rediae, reedit, reived, retied, teared, tidier, tierce, tiered, tirade, traced, triced, trivia, varied, verite, viatic, vitric.
	-5 letters: acred, acrid, acted, aerie, aider, aired, aiver, arced, areic, arete, avert, cadet, cadre, caird, cared, caret, carte, carve, cater, caved, caver, cavie, cedar, ceder, cered, ceria, cider, cited, citer, civet, civie, crate, crave, creed, cried, daric, dater, davit, deair, deave, deice, derat, deter, dicer, dicta, diver, drave, drive, eared, eater, eaved, edict, eider, erect, erica, evade, evert, evict, evite, icier, irade, irate, ivied, raced, radii, rated, raved, react, reave, recta, recti, redia, reive, retia, retie, revet, riced, rived, rivet, tared, teiid, terai, terce, tired, trace, trade, trave, tread, treed, triac, triad, trice, tried, vatic, vicar, viced, virid, vitae.
	Words containing the letters "a-c-d-e-e-i-i-r-t-v"
	+1 letter: predicative.
	+2 letters: depreciative.
	+3 letters: predicatively, reduplicative, valedictories.
	+4 letters: inadvertencies, ovariectomized, overidealistic, overmedicating, overmedication, veridicalities.
	+5 letters: overcapitalized, overmedications, radioprotective, reduplicatively, underactivities.
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