Meaning

4 senses

  1. To arrive at; to reach; to attain.

  2. (obsolete)To cure, heal.

  3. (obsolete)To restore (something) to a good condition.

  4. (obsolete)To recover, regain (something that had been lost).

Examples

1 sentences

  1. Memories that had been tucked away in the deepest recesses of my mind suddenly recured to me.

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Origin

From Middle English recure, probably partly from Latin recūrāre, and partly from a reduced

From Middle English recure, probably partly from Latin recūrāre, and partly from a reduced form of recover.

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Forms

recures, recuring, recured, recured
Base formrecure · to recure
3rd person singularrecures
Present participlerecuring
Past simplerecured
Past participlerecured

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theyrecure
he, she, itrecures

Past simpleLesson

all personsrecured

Present perfectLesson

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

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill recure

Word family

4 related words
Derivedrecurablerecurelessunrecurableunrecuring

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
rectifyrectumrecuperateC2recurrecurrencerecurrentrecyclable
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