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recommencing

recommencing is the present participle and gerund 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 recommencing

What is recommencing the present participle and gerund of?
Recommencing is the present participle and gerund of recommence.

Words near recommencing in the dictionary

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

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