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recommence

recommence verb: to begin again.

Verb

recommence (third-person singular simple present recommences, present participle recommencing, simple past and past participle recommenced)

  1. To begin again.
    • The struggle with ways and means had recommenced, more difficult now a hundredfold than it had been before, because of their increasing needs.1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XXIII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC
    • [...] Prosser was instrumental in the decision in 2010 to recommence publication of an annual health and safety report, following a period when it had fallen into abeyance.2020 July 29, Ian Prosser discusses with Paul Stephen, “Rail needs robust and strategic plans”, in Rail, page 40

recommence meaning in Tamil

recommence in Tamil

திரும்பத் தொடங்கு

Synonyms of recommence

Forms of recommence

third-person singular presentrecommences
present participlerecommencing
past participlerecommenced
pastrecommenced

Past tense of recommence: recommenced

Origin of recommence

From Middle French recommencer, from Old French recommencier, equivalent to re- + commence.

Questions about recommence

What does recommence mean?
Recommence means to begin again.
What is recommence in Tamil?
Recommence in Tamil is திரும்பத் தொடங்கு. See Recommence meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is recommence?
Recommence is a verb.
What is the past tense of recommence?
The past tense of recommence is recommenced.

Words near recommence in the dictionary

  1. recomforting
  2. recomfortless
  3. recomforts
  4. recomforture
  5. recommemorate
  6. recommence
  7. recommenced
  8. recommencement
  9. recommencements
  10. recommencer
  11. recommencers

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Adapted from Wiktionary: recommence (page history and authors); recommence (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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