recur

verb recurs · recurring · recurred · recur

1. intransitive Of an event, situation, etc.: to appear or happen again, especially repeatedly. The theme of the prodigal son recurs later in the third act.
2. intransitive Of a disease or symptom: to happen again, especially repeatedly or after a remission or an apparent recovery. The bullet had grazed the optic nerve. […] The oculist had warned him that the trouble might recur, that he ought to have remained under observation. Well, it had recurred about four months ago.
3. intransitive Of a memory, thought, etc.: to come to the mind again. The Saturday at night before he ſuffered, he dream'd his chaine vvas brought to the Counter gate, that the next day being Sunday, he ſhould be had to Nevvgate and burned at Smithfield the Munday enſuing, vvhich after many frightfull avvakings, ſtill recurring to his troubled fancy, he aroſe, and com
4. dated, intransitive To speak, think, or write about something again; to go back or return to a memory, a subject, etc. But firſt I ſhall recurre, and give a touch upon the nature of Gravity.
5. archaic, intransitive Followed by to, or (Scotland, obsolete) on or upon: to have recourse to someone or something for assistance, support, etc.; to appeal, to resort, to turn to. [I]f his Grace vvere minded, or vvould intend to do a thing inique or injuſt, there vvere no need to recurr unto the Pope's Holineſe for doing thereof.
6. intransitive Synonym of recurse (“to execute a procedure recursively”).
7. intransitive Often in the form recurring following a number: of a numeral or group of numerals in a decimal fraction: to repeat indefinitely. One-third can be written in decimal form as 0.3333 …, or point three-recurring.
8. intransitive, obsolete Followed by into or to: to go to a place again; to return. [H]er conſtancy beganne to ſtagger, and her honeſty had enough to doe, recurring to her eyes to containe them, leſt they ſhould giue any demonſtration of the amorous compaſsion vvhich Lotharios vvordes and teares had ſtirred in her breaſt.
9. intransitive, obsolete Followed by into or to: To go back to doing an activity, or to using a thing; to return. I contrived for ſome time to carry on ſomething like a converſation vvith this vvoman, but vvas ſoon glad to put an end to it by recurring to my bottle.
10. intransitive, obsolete, rare Followed by to: to go to a place; to resort. [T]he City grevv very populous, many recurring thither from all parts of Attica, for liberty and ſecurity, […]
11. intransitive, obsolete, rare Followed by from: to move or run back from something; to recede, to withdraw. If half the latitude of the firſt vvave be an aliquant part of the ſtring, after the motion has been propagated to the fartheſt extremity, there vvill be a nevv ſeries of leſs vvaves, recurring in a contrary direction.