RECUR


Meaning of RECUR in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ ri-ˈkər ]

intransitive verb

( re·curred ; re·cur·ring )

Etymology: Middle English recurren to return, from Latin recurrere, literally, to run back, from re- + currere to run — more at car

Date: 1529

1. : to have recourse : resort

2. : to go back in thought or discourse

on recurring to my letters of that date — Thomas Jefferson

3.

a. : to come up again for consideration

b. : to come again to mind

4. : to occur again after an interval : occur time after time

the cancer recurred

• re·cur·rence -ˈkər-ən(t)s, -ˈkə-rən(t)s noun

Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary.      Энциклопедический словарь английского языка Merriam Webster.