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recuring

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recuring is the present participle and gerund of recure.

Meaning of recure

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.

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Questions about recuring

What is recuring the present participle and gerund of?
Recuring is the present participle and gerund of recure.

Words near recuring in the dictionary

  1. recuration
  2. recure
  3. recured
  4. recureless
  5. recures
  6. recuring
  7. recurl
  8. recurled
  9. recurling
  10. recurls
  11. recuronium

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