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recommences

recommences is the third-person singular simple present indicative of recommence.

Meaning of recommence

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

Questions about recommences

What is recommences the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Recommences is the third-person singular simple present indicative of recommence.

Words near recommences in the dictionary

  1. recommenced
  2. recommencement
  3. recommencements
  4. recommencer
  5. recommencers
  6. recommences
  7. recommenceth
  8. recommencing
  9. recommend
  10. recommendability
  11. recommendable

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