recidivize

present singular third person recidivizes · participle present recidivizing · participle past recidivized · past recidivized

1. intransitiveSynonym of recidivate

   grant clemency to those[…]unlikely to recidivize.

   2015 July 1, Cal Klyman, “An Appeal to Pardon Billy Budd”, in Questions: Philosophy for Young People, volume 15, →DOI, pages 6–8

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   even when properly diagnosed, there is a general tendency to recidivize.

   2009, Dov M. Gabbay, John Woods, “Fallacies as Cognitive Virtues”, in Games: Unifying Logic, Language, and Philosophy, Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, →DOI, →ISBN, pages 57–98

   the control group[…]are white men, aged 25–45, with no prior crimes, charged with felony, and who did not recidivize.

   2020 July 30, Agnieszka Werpachowska, “‘Computer Says No’: Was Your Mortgage Application Rejected Unfairly?”, in Wilmott, volume 2020, number 108, →DOI, →ISSN, pages 54–61

   Synonyms: recidivate