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   Re·cur·rent

   /rəˈkərənt/

   

   adjective

   • 1. occurring often or repeatedly: "she had a recurrent dream about falling"
   • 2. (of a nerve or blood vessel) turning back so as to reverse direction: "the recurrent nerve leaves the hypocerebral ganglion"

   Word Origin late 16th century (in recurrent (sense 2)): from Latin recurrent- ‘running back’, from the verb recurrere (see recur).

   Derivatives

   • 1. recurrently adverb

   Scrabble Points: 11

   • R

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   • E

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   • C

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   • U

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   • R

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   • R

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   • E

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   • N

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   • T

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