Definition of "recurred" []

• Simple past tense and past participle of recur. (verb)

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• "The question again recurred, to be answered only with groans."
• "Outbreaks of this strain recurred in 1970 and 1972, and may have produced a million fatalities worldwide — despite the fact that another flu eleven years earlier (see #6) is believed to have built up global resistance to the disease."
• "Each time that the phrase recurred to me I saw myself a sinner for whom no punishment was adequate."