recur

Verb

Meaning

To come back; to return again or repeatedly; to come again to mind.

To occur at a stated interval, or according to some regular rule; as, the fever will recur to-night.

To resort; to have recourse; to go for help.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

repeat resort go back fall back echo return turn occur repair react reproduce recurring repeating repetition duplicate
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Antonyms

end die finish retire disappear quit
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Hypernyms

hap use return occur pass apply

Hyponyms

cycle iterate

Phrases with the word

recur to not recur

Derivatives

recurred recurring

Anagrams

curer

Examples

No possible future government in Kabul can be worse than the Taliban, and no thinkable future government would allow the level of Al Qaeda gangsterism to recur. So the outcome is proportionate and congruent with international principles of self-defense. Christopher Hitchens

Every true poet, I thought, must be original and originality a condition of poetic genius; so that each poet is like a species in nature (not an individuum genericum or specificum ) and can never recur. That nothing shd. be old or borrowed however cannot be. Gerard Manley Hopkins

When I look back over my novels what I find is that when I think I'm finished with a theme, I'm generally not. And usually themes will recur from novel to novel in odd, new guises. Richard Russo

I stick to the view I have always held that Hitler missed the bus in September 1938. He could have dealt France and ourselves a terrible, perhaps a mortal, blow then. The opportunity will not recur. Neville Chamberlain

History, it has been said, never repeats itself but historical situations recur. Arthur C. Clarke

Events tend to recur in cycles. W. Clement Stone

Close letter words and terms

recuperator recuperatory Recupero recur to recurable recurarization