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recure

/ɹɪˈkjʊə(ɹ)/

recure verb: to cure, heal.

Verb

recure (third-person singular simple present recures, present participle recuring, simple past and past participle recured)

  1. (obsolete) To cure, heal.
    • Be eschaunge of hym ye myghte best recure
      Withoute strif youre owne man ageync. 1513, John Lydgate, Troy Book
  2. (obsolete) To restore (something) to a good condition.
    • Phoebus pure / In weſterne waues his weary wagon did recure.1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto V”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, page 72
  3. (obsolete) To recover, regain (something that had been lost).
    • By this he had ſweet life recur’d agayne […]1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto V”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, page 471
  4. To arrive at; to reach; to attain.

Noun

recure (uncountable)

  1. (obsolete) cure; remedy; recovery
    • But whom he hits without recure he dies[…]1600, [Torquato Tasso], “The Eight Booke of Godfrey of Bulloigne”, in Edward Fairefax [i.e., Edward Fairfax], transl., Godfrey of Bulloigne, or The Recouerie of Ierusalem. […], London: […] Ar[nold]...

recure meaning in Bengali

recure in Bengali

আরোগ্য করা, সুস্থ করা, ভালো অবস্থায় পুনরুদ্ধার করা, পুনরুদ্ধার করা, ফিরে পাওয়া, পৌঁছানো

Forms of recure

third-person singular presentrecures
present participlerecuring
past participlerecured
pastrecured

Origin of recure

From Middle English recure, probably partly from Latin recūrāre, and partly from a reduced form of recover.

Words formed from recure

Words that rhyme with recure

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Questions about recure

What does recure mean?
Recure means to cure, heal.
What is recure in Bengali?
Recure in Bengali is আরোগ্য করা, সুস্থ করা, ভালো অবস্থায় পুনরুদ্ধার করা. See Recure meaning in Bengali.
What part of speech is recure?
Recure can be a verb or a noun.
How do you pronounce recure?
Recure is pronounced /ɹɪˈkjʊə(ɹ)/.
What is the past tense of recure?
The past tense of recure is recured.

Words near recure in the dictionary

  1. recurate
  2. recurated
  3. recurates
  4. recurating
  5. recuration
  6. recure
  7. recured
  8. recureless
  9. recures
  10. recuring
  11. recurl

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Adapted from Wiktionary: recure (page history and authors); recure (Bengali 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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