recur
1 antonym for recur — opposites grouped by meaning.
Verb — If an event or situation happens again, often more than once.
Synonyms by Meaning
1. verb
If an event or situation happens again, often more than once.
“Would she ever wake out of her dark, warm coma? She shuddered, and hoped not. Mrs Tuke would say atavism. Atavism! The word recurred curiously.”
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Etymology
This is a learned borrowing from Latin recurrō ("to hurry or run back; to return, revert"), itself made up of re- (a prefix meaning 'back, backwards') and currō ("to hasten, hurry; to move, travel; to run"), which ultimately goes back to the Proto-Indo-European root *ḱers- ("to run"). Related forms appear in other lang...
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