recicle

Verb

recycle (third-person singular simple present recycles, present participle recycling, simple past and past participle recycled)

1. (transitive) To break down and reuse component materials.
   • Both paper and plastic can be recycled.
2. (figuratively, transitive) To reuse as a whole.
   • Jokes are recycled so frequently, it’s as if comedy writing was eating a hole in the ozone layer: If the audience had a nickel for every time a character on one side of the frame says something could never happen as it simultaneously happens on the other side of the frame, they’d have enough to pay...2012 July 12, Sam Adams, “Ice Age: Continental Drift”, in AV Club
3. (intransitive, transitive) To collect or place in a bin for recycling.
   • Most cans, bottles, and jars need to be rinsed, so recycle while you are doing dishes.1990, Laurence Sombke, The Solution to Pollution: 101 Things You Can Do to Clean Up Your Environment, Sandy, Oregon: MasterMedia, p 22
4. (ergative, intransitive) To be recycled.
   • Sulfur recycles in the sulfur cycle.
5. (US) To discard into a recycling bin.
6. (US, transitive) To put (a person) through a course of training again.
   • Recruits cannot fail this portion of their training and become a Marine. Anyone who fails may be “recycled” through training up to three more times to try again, but will be sent home if success in this program is not achieved.2006, Barbara Schading, Richard Schading, A Civilian's Guide to the U.S. Military, page 102

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