🇰🇷Korean Source WordCode: KO

재발하다

Pronunciation / Transliteration: jaebalhada

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Recur/rɪˈkɜːr/
verbCEFR B2 (Upper)Top #3500 frequency
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🇰🇷 Example Sentence in Korean:

"증상이 다시 재발할 수 있습니다."

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As verb
  1. 1

    To occur again, periodically, or repeatedly.

    "The problem is likely to recur unless we address its root cause."
  2. 2

    To come back to the mind, memory, or attention.

    "The memory of that day continued to recur throughout his life."

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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from the Latin verb 'recurrere', meaning 'to run back, return', composed of 're-' (back, again) and 'currere' (to run). It entered the English language in the late 16th century, initially retaining its literal sense of running back before shifting to its current abstract meaning of happening repeatedly.

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