Definitions for recur

recur re·cur

Spelling: [ri-kur]
IPA: /rɪˈkɜr/

Recur is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 29 anagrams from letters in recur (cerru).

Definitions for recur

verb (used without object)

  1. to occur again, as an event, experience, etc.
  2. to return to the mind:
  3. to come up again for consideration, as a question.
  4. to have recourse.

Origin of recur

1610-20; earlier: to recede Latin recurrere to run back, equivalent to re- re- + currere to run

Examples for recur

Pronouns, prepositions, conjunctions may or rather must recur in successive lines.

Mark my words, there will soon be a new phase or an old one will recur.

I trust that you will not be offended if I recur to the subject of the New House.

Such situations will likely recur throughout much of the country in the general-election campaign.

I recur to it here as a plausible suggestion only, in connection with my theme.

Stephen Fry will recur as British Prime Minister Alastair Davies.

It is most likely that the court will not recur to capital punishment again.

“A psychotic episode could recur if he were released back into the community,” said the psychologist, Douglas Coggins.

A reflection I had reason to recur to more than once in my after experience of Ireland.

But he had undergone a major arm operation last season—the sort that, it is feared, could recur with overexertion.

Word Value for recur
Scrable

7

Words with friends

9

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