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[ri-kur]

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verb (used without object), -curred, -cur·ring.

to occur again, as an event, experience, etc.

to return to the mind: The idea kept recurring.

to come up again for consideration, as a question.

to have recourse.

Origin:
1610–20; earlier: to recede < Latin recurrere to run back, equivalent to re- re- + currere to run

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But he said such diseases may recur later in the same or other areas.

Eating disorders that were considered long overcome would suddenly recur.

Both hope stricter rules would not only resolve the crisis but ensure it does not recur.

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But he said such diseases may recur later in the same or other areas.

Eating disorders that were considered long overcome would suddenly recur.

Both hope stricter rules would not only resolve the crisis but ensure it does not recur.

The activity commonly dissipates the anger, which may or may not recur depending on the cause.

It is a little remarkable, the regularity with which political cycles recur.

Though large-scale protests have been suspended for now, they will recur once debate on the security bill resumes.

The complex factors that inform it have a tendency to recur in other guises.

Some of the initial difficulties such as computer glitches are unlikely to recur.

The difficulties have tended to recur during periods of higher traffic, only to resolve during off-peak times.

But sometimes, clots recur after such drug therapy, largely from the clumping of blood cells known as platelets.

Give me leave to recur to the page of history, to warn you of your present danger.

The symptoms can recur after weeks or months, for a year or more.

It would take a much less hardline political mood than the present one for them to recur.

Tsongas has suffered tend to recur at unpredictable times.

DC has to understand that this was their last chance to get representation, and it won't recur.

Ulcers heal after patients take drugs that suppress stomach acid production but they often recur again and again.

But the themes recur and overlap, and some of the characters are linked.

The urge to urinate frequently, which may recur immediately after the bladder is emptied.

There, a dedicated technician tests the drive to see whether a detected fault is likely to recur.

But treatments do not always offer a definitive cure, and injuries can recur.

They say the effects of the two droughts are likely to be transient, but only if similar events do not recur anytime soon.

McHenry said the company has since taken steps to try to ensure that such behavior did not recur.

Stories have many purposes and these recur cross-culturally at different levels of abstraction.

After all, you never know when one of those little meetings of life will recur in an important way.

In addition, hiccups are seldom isolated events but tend to recur every few seconds, sometimes for hours.

In sum, for many years to come, persistent national divergences in growth and unemployment are likely to recur from time to time.

If so, that raises the possibility that transmission might recur in countries where officials have said the outbreak is over.

Bowie complained recently of a recur ring pain, and a new examination revealed the fracture.

Her living are hectically alive, her dead recur in furious memory.

The texts of the songs concern the deaths of children, cradling gestures recur and the dancers resemble grief-stricken parents.

Many of the forms and themes recur in the historical survey, although their origins may be separated by hundreds of years.

They recur frequently, are difficult to treat and often require surgery.

But they are insufficient to get couples through the squalls of conflict that inevitably recur in the long term.

Such bouts of soul-searching, for sure, recur every winter when the cold and the holiday season coincide.

The thinking was that if the patient exerted himself too soon, the tear would recur.

Should insomnia recur after formal therapy ends, patients have the tools to make corrections on their own.

Bregovic can write melodies and motifs to recur throughout a film, lending a subliminal coherence.

He added that the county believed the problems would not recur.

The pursuit of such interweavings makes of this book one long poem, in which symbols and themes recur in different contexts.

Bloustein was cautioned that gestational diabetes could recur in a future pregnancy.

Culpepper was haunted by her brush with the disease and by the fear that it would recur.

But the authors of the report also warned that the infection could recur and urged consumers to take special precautions.

Gardens, trees, birds and flowers recur often in his poems.

Although patients often recover from individual bouts without permanent damage, they can recur.

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World English Dictionary

recur (rɪˈkɜː)

—vb , -curs, -curring, -curred
1.	to happen again, esp at regular intervals
2.	(of a thought, idea, etc) to come back to the mind
3.	(of a problem, etc) to come up again
4.	maths (of a digit or group of digits) to be repeated an infinite number of times at the end of a decimal fraction

[C15: from Latin recurrere, from re- + currere to run]

re'curring

—*adj*

re'curringly

—*adv*

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Word Origin & History

recur

mid-15c., from L. recurrere "to return, come back," from re- "back, again" + currere "to run" (see current). Originally of persons; application to thoughts, ideas, etc. is recorded from 1704.

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Medical Dictionary

recur re·cur (rĭ-kûr')
v. re·curred, re·cur·ring, re·curs

To happen, come up, or show up again or repeatedly.
To return to one's attention or memory.

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