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intercur

intercur verb: to intervene; to come or occur in the meantime.

Verb

intercur (third-person singular simple present intercurs, present participle intercurring, simple past and past participle intercurred)

  1. (intransitive, obsolete) To intervene; to come or occur in the meantime.
    • […]so that there intercur no sin in the acting[…]1612–1620, [Miguel de Cervantes], translated by Thomas Shelton, The History of the Valorous and Wittie Knight-errant Don-Quixote of the Mancha. […], London: […] William Stansby, for Ed[ward] Blount...

Forms of intercur

third-person singular presentintercurs
present participleintercurring
past participleintercurred
pastintercurred

Origin of intercur

From Latin intercurrere. See intercourse.

Questions about intercur

What does intercur mean?
Intercur means to intervene; to come or occur in the meantime.
What part of speech is intercur?
Intercur is a verb.
What is the past tense of intercur?
The past tense of intercur is intercurred.

Words near intercur in the dictionary

  1. interculturation
  2. interculturations
  3. interculture
  4. intercultures
  5. intercuneiform
  6. intercur
  7. intercurred
  8. intercurrence
  9. intercurrences
  10. intercurrent
  11. intercurrently

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