recure

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/ɹɪˈkjʊə(ɹ)/

verb

To cure, heal.

OriginMiddle English recure ← Latin recūrāre →
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Meanings

verbrecure (third-person singular simple present recures, present participle recuring, simple past and past participle recured)

present singular third person recures · participle present recuring · participle past recured · past recured

  1. obsoleteTo cure, heal.

    Be eschaunge of hym ye myghte best recure Withoute strif youre owne man ageyn

    c. 1513, John Lydgate, Troy Book
  2. obsoleteTo restore (something) to a good condition.

    Phoebus pure / In weſterne waues his weary wagon did recure.

    1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto V”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, page 72
  3. obsoleteTo recover, regain (something that had been lost).

    By this he had ſweet life recur’d agayne […]

    1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto V”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, page 471
  4. To arrive at; to reach; to attain.
nounrecure (uncountable)
  1. obsoleteuncountablecure; remedy; recovery

    But whom he hits without recure he dies[…]

    1600, [Torquato Tasso], “The Eight Booke of Godfrey of Bulloigne”, in Edward Fairefax [i.e., Edward Fairfax], transl., Godfrey of Bulloigne, or The Recouerie of Ierusalem. […], London: […] Ar[nold] Hatfield, for I[saac] Iaggard and M[atthew] Lownes, →OCLC, stanza 22, page 146

Origin

  1. Latinrecūrāre
  2. Middle Englishrecure
  3. Englishrecure

From Middle English recure, probably partly from Latin recūrāre, and partly from a reduced form of recover.

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Rhymes & wordplay

Rhymes with recure

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APA

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MLA

“recure.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/recure. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “recure,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/recure.

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