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recur

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"Happen again"

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5 lettersPronunciation /ɹɪˈkɜː/Part of speech verbSorted cerruStarts with REnds with R1 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. happen or occur again

Word origin

Learned borrowing from Latin recurrō (“to hurry or run back; to return, revert”), from re- (prefix meaning ‘back, backwards’) + currō (“to hasten, hurry; to move, travel; to run”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ḱers- (“to run”)).

Used in a sentence

  • The theme of the prodigal son recurs later in the third act.
  • For it is manifeſt, that all the Arguments that are brought Chap. 2, Sect. 3. vvill recur vvith full force in this place.
  • But ſtill, the Queſtion recurs, vvhether Man be Free?

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