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RECOMMENCE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does recommence mean?
• RECOMMENCE (verb)
The verb RECOMMENCE has 2 senses:
1. cause to start anew
2. begin again
Familiarity information: RECOMMENCE used as a verb is rare.
Dictionary entry details
| Conjugation: |
... he / she / it recommences Past simple: recommenced
Past participle: recommenced
-ing form: recommencing
Sense 1
Meaning:
Cause to start anew
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Context example:
The enemy recommenced hostilities after a few days of quiet
Hypernyms (to "recommence" is one way to...):
begin; commence; lead off; start (set in motion, cause to start)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
Derivation:
recommencement (beginning again)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Begin again
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Context example:
we recommenced his reading after a short nap
Hypernyms (to "recommence" is one way to...):
begin; commence; get; get down; set about; set out; start; start out (take the first step or steps in carrying out an action)
Sentence frames:
Something ----s
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s to INFINITIVE
Somebody ----s VERB-ing
Derivation:
recommencement (beginning again)
Context examples
"It is a dreadful accident, I know," Ruth recommenced with a sinking voice.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
He recommenced his walk, but soon again stopped, and this time just before me.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
Felix replied in a cheerful accent, and the old man was recommencing his music when someone tapped at the door.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
Perhaps, Mr. Wilson, you would have the great kindness to recommence your narrative.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The survivors would soon be back where they had left their muskets, and at any moment the fire might recommence.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
Mr. Tilney was polite enough to seem interested in what she said; and she kept him on the subject of muslins till the dancing recommenced.
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
Fanny's rides recommenced the very next day; and as it was a pleasant fresh-feeling morning, less hot than the weather had lately been, Edmund trusted that her losses, both of health and pleasure, would be soon made good.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
When the dancing recommenced, however, and Darcy approached to claim her hand, Charlotte could not help cautioning her in a whisper, not to be a simpleton, and allow her fancy for Wickham to make her appear unpleasant in the eyes of a man ten times his consequence.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
It seemed as if she had been one moment too late; and as long as she dared observe, he did not look again: but the performance was recommencing, and she was forced to seem to restore her attention to the orchestra and look straight forward.
(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)
He was alive to every new scene, joyful when he saw the beauties of the setting sun, and more happy when he beheld it rise and recommence a new day.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
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