recur Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. verb happen or occur again
    repeat.
    • This is a recurring story
  2. verb return in thought or speech to something
    go back.
  3. verb have recourse to
    resort; fall back.
    • The government resorted to rationing meat

WordNet

Re*cur" intransitive verb
Etymology
L. recurrere; pref.re- re- + currere to run. See Current.
Wordforms
imperfect & past participle Recurred present participle & verbal noun Recurring
Definitions
  1. To come back; to return again or repeatedly; to come again to mind.
    When any word has been used to signify an idea, the old idea will recur in the mind when the word is heard. I. Watts.
  2. To occur at a stated interval, or according to some regular rule; as, the fever will recur to-night.
  3. To resort; to have recourse; to go for help.
    If, to avoid succession in eternal existence, they recur to the "punctum stans" of the schools, they will thereby very little help us to a more positive idea of infinite duration. Locke.

Webster 1913