recur
verb
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
- Line style
- core relation
- instance, member or derived
- substance, domain or see-also
- Direction
- arrow points to the broader concept
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Senses
Sense 1 verb
happen or occur again
This is a recurring story
Types & categories
Related & opposite
- repetition derivation
- recurrence derivation
- insistent derivation
- recurrent derivation
- repetitious derivation
Sense 2 verb
return in thought or speech to something
Types & categories
- hark back hypernym
Sense 3 verb
have recourse to
The government resorted to rationing meat
Types & categories
- use hypernym
Related & opposite
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | repetition |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | recurrence |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | insistent |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | recurrent |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | repetitious |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | hap |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | iterate |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | cycle |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | hark back |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | recourse |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | recourse |
| 3 | hypernym | Types & categories | use |