"recidivate" meaning in English

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Verb

Forms: recidivates [present, singular, third-person], recidivating [participle, present], recidivated [participle, past], recidivated [past]
Etymology: From Latin recidīvus (“returning, recurring”) + -ate. Etymology templates: {{root|en|ine-pro|*ḱh₂d-}}, {{uder|en|la|recidīvus||returning, recurring}} Latin recidīvus (“returning, recurring”), {{suffix|en||ate}} + -ate Head templates: {{en-verb}} recidivate (third-person singular simple present recidivates, present participle recidivating, simple past and past participle recidivated)
  1. (intransitive) To return to criminal behaviour; to relapse Tags: intransitive Translations (return to criminal behaviour): reincidir (Catalan), récidiver (French)

Inflected forms

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