| recumb | (verb) lean in a comfortable resting position | Synonyms: recline, repose |
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| recumbent | (adjective) lying down; in a position of comfort or rest | Synonyms: accumbent, decumbent |
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| recuperate | (verb) get over an illness or shock | Synonyms: convalesce, recover |
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| (verb) restore to good health or strength | - |
| (verb) regain a former condition after a financial loss | Synonyms: go back, recover |
| (verb) regain or make up for | Synonyms: recoup, recover |
| recuperation | (noun) gradual healing (through rest) after sickness or injury | Synonyms: convalescence, recovery |
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| recuperative | (adjective) promoting recuperation | Synonyms: restorative |
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| recur | (verb) happen or occur again | Synonyms: repeat |
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| (verb) return in thought or speech to something | Synonyms: go back |
| (verb) have recourse to | Synonyms: fall back, resort |
| recurrence | (noun) happening again (especially at regular intervals) | Synonyms: return |
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| recurrent | (adjective) recurring again and again | Synonyms: perennial, repeated |
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| recurrently | (adverb) in a recurrent manner | - |
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| recurring | (adjective) coming back | Synonyms: revenant |
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| recursion | (noun) (mathematics) an expression such that each term is generated by repeating a particular mathematical operation; also, the repeated application or execution of a pattern, function or definition; an expression that is recursive | - |
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| recursive | (adjective) of or relating to a recursion | - |
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| recurvate | (adjective) curved backward or inward | Synonyms: recurved |
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| recurve | (verb) curve or bend (something) back or down | - |
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| recurved | (adjective) curved backward or inward | Synonyms: recurvate |
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| recusal | (noun) (law) the disqualification of a judge or jury by reason of prejudice or conflict of interest; a judge can be recused by objections of either party or judges can disqualify themselves | Synonyms: recusation |
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| recusancy | (noun) refusal to submit to established authority; originally the refusal of Roman Catholics to attend services of the Church of England | - |
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| recusant | (adjective) refusing to submit to authority | - |
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| (adjective) (of Catholics) refusing to attend services of the Church of England | Synonyms: dissentient |
| (noun) someone who refuses to conform to established standards of conduct | Synonyms: nonconformist |
| recusation | (noun) (law) the disqualification of a judge or jury by reason of prejudice or conflict of interest; a judge can be recused by objections of either party or judges can disqualify themselves | Synonyms: recusal |
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| (noun) (law) an objection grounded on the judge's relationship to one of the parties | - |
| recuse | (verb) challenge or except to a judge as being incompetent or interested, in canon and civil law | - |
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| (verb) disqualify oneself (as a judge) in a particular case | - |