Recur

Definitions: Recur

Recur

Verb

1. Happen or occur again; "This is a recurring story".

2. Return in thought or speech to something.

3. Have recourse to; "The government resorted to rationing meat".

Date "recur" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1517. (references)

Domain	Definitions
Health	To occur again. Recurrence is the return of cancer, at the same site as the original (primary) tumor or in another location, after the tumor had disappeared. (references)
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Synonyms: Recur

Synonyms: fall back (v), go back (v), repeat (v), resort (v). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Frequency	Verb: recur; do nothing but; keep, keep on.
Memory	Recur to the mind; flash on the mind, flash across the memory.
Regularity of recurrence Periodicity	Verb: recur in regular order, recur in regular succession; return, revolve; come again, come in its turn; come round, come round again; beat, pulsate; alternate; intermit.
Repetition	Recur, revert, return, reappear, recurse; renew; (restore).
Use	Ply, work, wield, handle, manipulate; play, play off; exert, exercise, practice, avail oneself of, profit by, resort to, have recourse to, recur to, take betake oneself to; take up with, take advantage of; lay one's hands on, try.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Domain	Title
Books	Lessons from Disaster: How Organizations Have No Memory and Accidents Recur (reference) (more book examples)
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Author	Quotation
W. Clement Stone	Events tend to recur in cycles...
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Title	Author	Quote
Emma	Austen, Jane	A thousand vexatious thoughts would recur.
Les Miserables	Hugo, Victor	Permit us to recur, for the sake of clearness, to the simple means already employed by us for Waterloo.
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Subject	Topic	Quote
Health		BV can recur after treatment. (references)
		Some kinds of tumors may recur. (references)
		If it heals naturally, sarcoidosis is unlikely to recur. (references)
Human Rights	Morocco	The Youssoufi Government, upon taking office, pledged that such policies would not recur, and that it would disclose as much information as possible on past cases. (references)
Political Economy	Western Sahara	While the forced disappearance of individuals who opposed the Government of Morocco and its policies occurred over several decades, the Government in 1998 pledged to ensure that such policies do not recur, and to disclose as much information as possible on past cases. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Speaker	Term	Phrase(s)
George Washington	1789-1797	As auxiliary to the state of our defense, to which Congress can never too frequently recur, they will not omit to inquire whether the fortifications which have been already licensed by law be commensurate with our exigencies.
John Quincy Adams	1825-1829	To the topic of internal improvement, emphatically urged by him at his inauguration, I recur with peculiar satisfaction.
Andrew Jackson	1829-1837	Should those scenes unfortunately recur, the parties to the contest may count on a faithful performance of the duties incumbent on us as a neutral nation, and our own citizens may equally rely on the firm assertion of their neutral rights.
Jimmy Carter	1977-1981	We will guarantee that abuses do not recur, but we must tighten our controls on sensitive intelligence information, and we need to remove unwarranted restraints on America's ability to collect intelligence.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

"Recur" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 76.28% of the time. "Recur" is used about 156 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)	76.28%	119	29,501
Lexical Verb (base form)	19.87%	31	62,296
Noun (singular)	3.85%	6	143,867
Total	100.00%	156	N/A

Expressions using "recur": recur to ♦ recur to one's memory. Additional references.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Language		Translations for "recur"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		rishfaqem (reappear), rikthehem (recall, regain, revert), sjell ndër mend përsëri, përsëritet (be repeated, come round, return, tautologize), ndodh sërish. (various references)

Arabic		‏لجأ إلى (betake), ‏تكرر (echo, repeat, repetition, run, sublimation), ‏تواتر (recurrence), ‏عاود الذهن, ‏عاد ثانية, ‏ظهر ثانية. (various references)

Bulgarian		случвам се пак, връщам се (come back, drive back, flow back, get back, go back, regurgitate, revert, turn back), прибягвам (betake, proceed, repair, resort), повтарям се (redouble, repeat, repeat oneself), изниквам отново. (various references)

Chinese		复发 (Recurred, Recurring, relapse, Relapsed, relapsing). (various references)

Czech		vracet se (hark back, regress), opakovat se. (various references)

Danish		Luederske linier kan paany optraede paa staal, der foerst koldpresses og derefter aeldes (stretcher strains are apt to recur on steel when pressed after initial cold-working followed by ageing). (various references)

Dutch		op staal dat men na een eerste koude deformatie laat besterven en vervolgens perst, kunnen gemakkelijk weer glijlijnen of lüders-banden opkomen (stretcher strains are apt to recur on steel when pressed after initial cold-working followed by ageing). (various references)

Farsi		تکرارشدن , عودکردن (Recoil, Recrudesce, Relapse), دورزدن (Circle, Compass, Revolve, Round, Skirt, Twinge), بازرخدادن . (various references)

Finnish		uusiutua (be renewed, be repeated, occur again, repeat itself, return, to rejuvenate), uudistua (be renevew, be repeated, be revived), toistua (be repeated, occur again, repeat itself), palata (come back, get back, re-enter, return, revert). (various references)

French		se reproduire (reproduce). (various references)

German		wiederkehren (return, to recur), sich wiederholen (be repeated, repeat oneself). (various references)

Greek		συμβαίνω πάλι, επανέρχομαι (come back, rejoin, return, revert to), επαναλαμβάνομαι, ανατρέχω (backdate, consult, go back, look up, trace back). (various references)

Hebrew		לחזור ולקרות, לחזור חליל�" (be repeated), ל�"תרחש ש� ית, ל�"ופיע ש� ית. (various references)

Hungarian		ismétlõdik (repeat), újból eszébe jut (to recur). (various references)

Indonesian		lagi-lagi timbul, kumat (have a relapse). (various references)

Italian		ritornare in mente, ritornare (become again, come back, give back, go, go back, report back, retrace, retrograde, return, revert, switch back, to go down, to land, turn round), ripresentarsi (resurface), ripetere (echo, iterate, repeat, replay, replicate, retry, rollback, run through, say, say again, to execute successively a series of instructions, to repeat), ricorrere (appeal, apply, circulate, fall, go to, occur, resort, to bring a case before a court, to present a plea, to start formal proceedings). (various references)

Korean		재발하십시�". (various references)

Manx		cheet gys cooinaghtyn, aahaghyrt (recurrence). (various references)

Pig Latin		ecurray

Portuguese		referir (account, attach, attribute, give an account, point, quote, refer, relate, report, state, tautologize, tell), voltar atrás (backpedal, tautologize), voltar a falar (tautologize), ocorrer (a firm offer, become of, come, happen, occur, pass, send, tautologize). (various references)

Romanian		reveni (call again, come, come again, devolve to smb., devolve upon smb., get back, go back, reappear, recede, relapse, repass, retract, return, revert), reapãrea (reappear, re-emerge), se reproduce (breed, reproduce), se întâmpla din nou. (various references)

Russian		возвращаться (come back, cycle back, drive back, go back, recurred, rejoin, retrace, revert back). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		vratiti se (come back, drive back, get back, go back, move back, relapse, return, revert), opet iskrsnuti. (various references)

Spanish		repetirse (repeat). (various references)

Swedish		upprepas, återkomma (come back, repeat). (various references)

Turkish		yinelemek (iterate, quote, recapitulate, renew, repeat), yeniden olmak, tekrarlamak (duplicate, go over, ingeminate, iterate, play back, rebroadcast, recap, recapitulate, recrudesce, re-enact, rehearse, reiterate, relapse, renew, repeat, replicate, retell, return, revise, say, say over), tekrar aklına gelmek, hatırlamak (call to mind, call up, recall, recapture, recollect, remember), başladığı yere dönmek. (various references)

Ukranian		траплятися знову, знову спадати на думку, давати рецидив (recrudesce). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	recurrere, reversa, reversae, reversaeque, reversam, reversi, reversique, reversum, reversurum, reversurus, reversus, reversusque, revertamini, revertamur, revertantur, revertar, revertaris, revertatur, revertebantur, revertebatur, revertebaturque, revertemini, revertemur, revertendi, revertens, revertensque, revertente, revertentem, revertentes, revertentesque, revertenti, revertentia, revertentibus, revertentium, revertentur, revertere, reverteremur, reverterentur, reverteretur, reverteris, reverterunt, revertetur, reverti, revertimini, revertissent, revertitur, revertiturque, revertuntur. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "recur": recurred, recurrence, recurrences, recurrent, recurrently, recurring, recurs, recursion, recursions, recursive, recursively, recursiveness, recursivenesses, recurve, recurved, recurves, recurving. (additional references)
	Words containing "recur": nonrecurrent, nonrecurring, precure, precured, precures, precuring, precursor, precursors, precursory. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Recur" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: ecor, rec, reccur, reci, reclu, reco, recob, recoc, recog, recom, recor, recore, recouer, recourt, recow, recr, recre, recro, recrun, recrut, recry, recue, recup, recurr, recurve, recurvum, recyr, redcu, Refurb, regur, reocur, reour, requ, resr, ressor, ricu, Rokuro. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "recur" (pronounced riker" or rēker")
3	-i k er"	liqueur.
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Direct Anagrams: curer.
	Words within the letters "c-e-r-r-u"
	-1 letter: cure, curr, ecru, ruer.
	-2 letters: cue, cur, ecu, err, rec, rue.
	-3 letters: er, re.
	Words containing the letters "c-e-r-r-u"
	+1 letter: cruder, curare, curber, curers, curler, curred, currie, curser, curter, recurs.
	+2 letters: churner, churred, coruler, courier, courser, courter, crueler, cruiser, cruller, crumber, crupper, crusher, curares, curbers, curdier, curdler, curlers, curlier, current, curried, currier, curries, cursers, curvier, farceur, lurcher, mercury, precure, procure, recruit, recurve, reducer, reincur, reoccur, rescuer, scourer, securer, sprucer, trucker, verruca.
	+3 letters: acquirer, arcature, brochure, capturer, carburet, carouser, censurer, cerebrum, churners, colourer, conjurer, corulers, couriers, coursers, courters, courtier, creature, croupier, crucifer, cruddier, crueller, cruisers, crullers, crumbers, crumbier, crummier, cruncher, cruppers, crusader, crushers, crustier, cruzeiro, cumberer, curarine, curarize, curdlers, currency, currents, curricle, curriers, curriery, curseder, ecraseur, farceurs, fracture, furcraea, incurred, lecturer, lurchers, mercuric, obscurer, occurred, overcure, precured, precures, procured, procurer, procures, producer, puckerer, recourse, recruits, recurred, recurved, recurves, reducers, reductor, reincurs, reoccurs, rescuers, resecure, resource, restruck, scourers, scourger, scrubber, scurfier, scurried, scurries, scurrile, scurvier, securers, sprucier, succorer, supercar, surfacer, traducer, trouncer, truckers, truckler, turmeric, ureteric, verrucae.
	+4 letters: acquirers, arcatures, barbecuer, brochures, capturers, carburets, carburise, carburize, carousers, carrefour, carrousel, censurers, cerebrums, chirruped, churchier, coinsurer, colourers, concurred, conjurers, conqueror, corrugate, corrupted, corrupter, courtiers, courtlier, couturier, coverture, cranreuch, creatural, creatures, criterium, croupiers, crucifers, crumblier, crumplier, crunchers, crunchier, crusaders, cruzeiros, cumberers, cupbearer, curarines, curarized, curarizes, curiouser, curlpaper, currently, curricles, curtailer, curvature, decurrent, ecraseurs, excurrent, forecourt, fourscore, fractured, fractures, furcraeas, grouchier, hurricane, incurrent, lacquerer, lecturers, mercurate, mercurial, mercuries, mercurous, muckraker, occurrent, opercular, overcured, overcures, precuring, precursor, procedure, procurers, producers, prurience, pruriency, puckerers, puckerier, purchaser, raconteur, raunchier, reacquire, recapture, reconquer, recontour, recounter, recourses, recruited, recruiter, recurrent, recurring, recursion, recursive, recurving, reductors, relacquer, renouncer, reproduce, resecured, resecures, resources, resurface, resurrect, reticular, retoucher, ridiculer, rubricate, scourgers, scripture, scrounger, scrubbers, scrubbier, scruffier, sorcerous, stricture, structure, succorers, supercars, superrace, superrich, surcharge, surfacers, surfperch, traducers, trouncers, trucklers, turmerics, unclearer, uncurrent, undercard, unscarred, urochrome, verrucose.
	+5 letters: barbecuers, breadcrumb, bunchberry, bureaucrat, carbureted, carburetor, carburised, carburises, carburized, carburizes, carefuller, caricature, carrefours, carrousels, chartreuse, chirurgeon, churchgoer, churchlier, cinerarium, cloudberry, coinsurers, colporteur, concurrent, conquerors, coproducer, corduroyed, cornhusker, corrugated, corrugates, corrupters, corruptest, corruptive, countercry, courseware, couturiere, couturiers, covertures, cranreuchs, creaturely, criteriums, cuirassier, cupbearers, curlpapers, currencies, currieries, curtailers, curvatures, discourser, encourager, fluorescer, forecourts, haircutter, hurricanes, incurrence, introducer, lacquerers, mercurated, mercurates, mercurials, microcurie, micrurgies, muckrakers, noncurrent, nurturance, nutcracker, occurrence, occurrents, operculars, overcuring, overstruck, persecutor, precarious, precursors, precursory, prefecture, procedural, procedures, procurable, pronouncer, pronuclear, prosecutor, pruriences, purchasers, quercitron, racecourse, raconteurs, reacquired, reacquires, recaptured, recaptures, reconquers, recontours, recounters, recrudesce, recruiters, recruiting, recuperate, recurrence, recursions, reincurred, relacquers, rencounter, renouncers, reoccurred, reproduced, reproducer, reproduces, repurchase, resecuring, resurfaced, resurfacer, resurfaces, resurgence, resurrects, retouchers, ridiculers, rubberneck, rubricated, rubricates, scirrhuses, scriptures, scroungers, scroungier, scrutineer, seersucker, strictures, structured, structures, subscriber, subtracter, supercargo, supermicro, superraces, surcharged, surcharges, trabecular, transducer, trifurcate, tubercular, undercards, undercover, undercroft, underprice, underreact, underscore, undertrick, unrecorded, urochromes, vermicular, vernacular, versicular.
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