recurred

Verb

recur (third-person singular simple present recurs, present participle recurring, simple past and past participle recurred)

1. (intransitive) Of an event, situation, etc.: to appear or happen again, especially repeatedly.
   • The theme of the prodigal son recurs later in the third act.

   Synonyms:

   recrudesce, recourse, rehappen, reoccur, repeat

   1. (intransitive) Of a disease or symptom: to happen again, especially repeatedly or after a remission or an apparent recovery.
      • The bullet had grazed the optic nerve. […] The oculist had warned him that the trouble might recur, that he ought to have remained under observation. Well, it had recurred about four months ago.1928 July 27, Radclyffe Hall, chapter 52, in The Well of Loneliness […], New York, N.Y.: Covici Friede Publishers, published December 1928, →OCLC, book 5, section 2, page 477
2. (intransitive) Of a memory, thought, etc.: to come to the mind again.
   • The Saturday at night before he ſuffered, he dream'd his chaine vvas brought to the Counter gate, that the next day being Sunday, he ſhould be had to Nevvgate and burned at Smithfield the Munday enſuing, vvhich after many frightfull avvakings, ſtill recurring to his troubled fancy, he aroſe, and...1651, Thomas Fuller, “The Life and Death of John Bradford”, in Abel Redevivus: Or, The Dead Yet Speaking. The Lives and Deaths of the Moderne Divines. […], London: […] Tho[mas] Brudenell for John...
3. (dated, intransitive) To speak, think, or write about something again; to go back or return to a memory, a subject, etc.
   • But firſt I ſhall recurre, and give a touch upon the nature of Gravity.1662, Henry More, “An Antidote against Atheism: or, An Appeal to the Natural Faculties of the Mind of Man, whether there Be Not a God. … The Third Edition […]. Chapter I.”, in A Collection of Several...
4. (archaic, intransitive) Followed by to, or (Scotland, obsolete) on or upon: to have recourse to someone or something for assistance, support, etc.; to appeal, to resort, to turn to.
   • [I]f his Grace vvere minded, or vvould intend to do a thing inique or injuſt, there vvere no need to recurr unto the Pope's Holineſe for doing thereof.1529 (date written), [Thomas Wolsey], “[A Collection of Records and Original Papers; with Other Instruments Referred to in the Former History.] XXII. The Second Part of a Long Dispatch of the...
5. (intransitive) Synonym of recurse (“to execute a procedure recursively”).

   Synonyms:

   recurse

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