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Recurred vs Recured - What's the difference?

recurred | recured |

As verbs the difference between recurred and recured

is that recurred is past tense of recur while recured is past tense of recure.

recurred

English

Verb

(head)
  • (recur)

    • recur

    English

    Verb

    (recurr)
  • To have recourse (to) someone or something for assistance, support etc.
  • *1891 , Mary Noailles Murfree, In the "Stranger People's" Country , Nebraska 2005, p. 43:
  • *: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 no more.
  • To happen again.
    • The theme of the prodigal son recurs later in the third act.
  • (computing) To recurse.

    • Derived terms

    * recurrent * recurrence

    Related terms

    * recurse * recursive, recursively * recursivity * reoccur * recourse

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    recured

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (recure)

    • recure

    English

    Verb

    (recur)
  • (obsolete) To cure, heal.
  • * Lydgate
    • No medicine might avail his sickness to recure .
  • (obsolete) To restore (something) to a good condition.
  • *1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , I.v:
  • *:Phoebus pure / In westerne waues his wearie wagon did recure .
  • (obsolete) To recover, regain (something that had been lost).
  • *1590 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , III.5:
  • *:By this he had sweet life recur'd agayne [...].
  • To arrive at; to reach; to attain.
    • (Lydgate)

    Noun

    (-)
  • (obsolete) cure; remedy; recovery
  • * Fairfax
    • But whom he hite, without recure he dies.