Meaning

11 senses
  1. (intransitive)Of an event, situation, etc.: to appear or happen again, especially repeatedly.

    The theme of the prodigal son recurs later in the third act.

    happen or occur again

  2. Of an event, situation, etc.: to appear or happen again, especially repeatedly.

    (intransitive)Of a disease or symptom: to happen again, especially repeatedly or after a remission or an apparent recovery.

  3. (intransitive)Of a memory, thought, etc.: to come to the mind again.

  4. (dated, intransitive)To speak, think, or write about something again; to go back or return to a memory, a subject, etc.

  5. (intransitive)Synonym of recurse (“to execute a procedure recursively”).

  6. (intransitive)Often in the form recurring following a number: of a numeral or group of numerals in a decimal fraction: to repeat indefinitely.

    One-third can be written in decimal form as 0.3333 …, or point three-recurring.

  7. (archaic, intransitive)Followed by to, or (Scotland, obsolete) on or upon: to have recourse to someone or something for assistance, support, etc.; to appeal, to resort, to turn to.

    have recourse to

  8. (intransitive, obsolete)Followed by into or to: to go to a place again; to return.

  9. (intransitive, obsolete)Followed by into or to: To go back to doing an activity, or to using a thing; to return.

  10. (intransitive, obsolete, rare)Followed by to: to go to a place; to resort.

  11. (intransitive, obsolete, rare)Followed by from: to move or run back from something; to recede, to withdraw.

Examples

19 sentences
  1. This seems to be a recurring problem.

    deEs scheint ein wiederkehrendes Problem zu sein.

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  2. This is a recurring problem.

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  3. I have recurring nightmares about it.

    deDas bereitet mir immer wieder Alpträume.

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  4. Tom had recurring nightmares about it.

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  5. I have a recurring dream nowadays.

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Translations

3 languages

Origin

Learned borrowing from Latin recurrō (“to hurry or run back; to return, revert”), from re-

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”)).

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Forms

recurs, recurring, recurred, recurred
Base formrecur · to recur
3rd person singularrecurs
Present participlerecurring
Past simplerecurred
Past participlerecurred

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theyrecur
he, she, itrecurs

Past simpleLesson

all personsrecurred

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave recurred
he, she, ithas recurred

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill recur

Synonyms

10 synonyms
Close in meaning

Antonyms

1 antonyms
return to the course of argument:digress

Word family

4 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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