recur, reoccur

recur, reoccur
These words are interchangeable in the meaning of "to occur again": "That was a dreadful experience which I hope will not recur (or reoccur)." Recur, more widely used than reoccur, implies the repetition more than once of an event or experience, sometimes according to a definite pattern: "The tide ebbs and flows in a recurring pattern." Reoccur suggests a one-time repetition: "After his appendix was removed, he knew that an attack of appendicitis could not reoccur." Corresponding nouns are recurrence and reoccurrence. Recurrence is so much more widely used that several leading dictionaries no longer list reoccurrence.

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  • reoccur — See recur. See recur, reoccur …   Dictionary of problem words and expressions

  • recur — See recur, reoccur …   Dictionary of problem words and expressions

  • reoccur — index recur Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …   Law dictionary

  • recur — I verb be persistent, come again, come back, continue, crop up again, happen again, haunt, intermit, keep on, occur again, persevere, persist, reappear, recrudesce, renew, reoccur, repeat, resume, return, revert II index occur (happen), repeat… …   Law dictionary

  • recur — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) v. return, come back, reoccur, repeat, intermit, revert. See repetition. II (Roget s IV) v. Syn. return, reappear, crop up again; see happen 2 , repeat 2 . III (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) v. repeat,… …   English dictionary for students

  • reoccur — (Roget s Thesaurus II) verb 1. To happen again or repeatedly: reappear, recur. See REPETITION. 2. To come back to a former condition: recrudesce, recur, return, revert. See REPETITION …   English dictionary for students

  • recur — verb we don t want the termite infestation to recur Syn: happen again, reoccur, occur again, repeat (itself); come back (again), return, reappear, appear again …   Thesaurus of popular words

  • reoccur — verb To occur again; to recur …   Wiktionary

  • recur — verb /ɹɪˈkəː/ a) To have recourse (to) someone or something for assistance, support etc. She only replied with a laugh, and he evidently deemed futile the bid for sympathy on the score of religious or irreligious fellowship, for he recurred to it …   Wiktionary

  • recur — Synonyms and related words: alternate, be here again, circle, come again, come and go, come around, come back, come round, come round again, come up again, continue, cycle, echo, go back, intermit, keep coming, occur often, oscillate, pulsate,… …   Moby Thesaurus

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