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Antonyms for recurring


Grammar : Verb
Spell : ri-kur-ing, -kuhr-
Phonetic Transcription : rɪˈkɜr ɪŋ, -ˈkʌr-



Definition of recurring

Origin :
  • 1711, present participle adjective from recur.
  • verb happen again; repeat in one's mind
Example sentences :
  • One might edge a wall-paper or fringe a robe with a recurring decimal.
  • Extract from : « Alarms and Discursions » by G. K. Chesterton
  • This recurring interest in women was a symptom of the 168 disease he had not yet shaken off.
  • Extract from : « Louisiana Lou » by William West Winter
  • But he seems to have supposed that the course of events was recurring rather than progressive.
  • Extract from : « Timaeus » by Plato
  • And so on, over and over, with the one recurring burden—what was the captain going to do?
  • Extract from : « Cy Whittaker's Place » by Joseph C. Lincoln
  • I can say that not an hour passes without my mind's recurring to my plan.
  • Extract from : « The Voyages and Adventures of Captain Hatteras » by Jules Verne
  • These were ever recurring to me, and always with the same reply.
  • Extract from : « Tom Burke Of "Ours", Volume II (of II) » by Charles James Lever
  • Was this recurring reticence and mystery due to any act of his father's?
  • Extract from : « A Waif of the Plains » by Bret Harte
  • Eleanor's persistence in recurring to this most distasteful of subjects roused her to fury.
  • Extract from : « Quin » by Alice Hegan Rice
  • Mr Neeld was sadly flustered by these recurring references to him.
  • Extract from : « Tristram of Blent » by Anthony Hope
  • "Old Seth Craddock's guns," he said, musing as on a recurring memory.
  • Extract from : « Trail's End » by George W. Ogden

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