recommence

[ UK /ɹˌiːkəmˈɛns/ ]
VERB
  1. begin again
    we recommenced his reading after a short nap
  2. cause to start anew
    The enemy recommenced hostilities after a few days of quiet
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How To Use recommence In A Sentence

  • A few talented writers en dowed with originality and exceptional animation, a few brilliant efforts, isolated, without following, interrupted and recommenced, did not suffice to endow a nation with a solid and imposing basis of literary wealth. Literary and Philosophical Essays: French, German and Italian
  • The conversation ere long recommenced in a more general form, though still in a somewhat disputative tone. Shirley, by Charlotte Bronte
  • Three years later the wanderings of the unfortunate family recommenced; the Emperor Francis II. was dead, and his successor, Ferdinand, must visit Prague to be crowned, and Charles X. feared that the presence of a discrowned monarch might be embarrassing on such an occasion. Court Memoirs of France Series — Complete
  • I thought it as well, therefore, to recommence the study of daturine, the more so as I had already determined the incorrectness of the long accepted point of fusion of atropine, and that my researches on hyoscyamine convinced me that this base is an isomer of atropine, although very analogous to it. Scientific American Supplement, No. 324, March 18, 1882
  • Between 9.30 P.M. and 11 P.M. the "cannonading" heard on the previous night recommenced. The Home of the Blizzard Being the Story of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914
  • The one who became defiled, _was defiled_, whether intentionally or not; GOD'S requirement was absolute, and where not fulfilled the vow was broken; the sin-offering had to be offered, and the service recommenced. Separation and Service or Thoughts on Numbers VI, VII.
  • To avenge his wrongs, and the loss of his betrothed, who is given to his rival and dies, he blows up the steamer in presence of an assembled multitude, and quits his native land with a courtezan who has conceived a liking for him and will provide him with money to recommence his enterprise elsewhere. Balzac
  • It will be interesting to see how they fare when the real battle recommences next term.
  • The Parole Board recalled 231 parolees to prison to recommence serving their sentences in the 2002-03 financial year.
  • J'suis un peu balonné, j'ai recommencé la cystine et ca a un effet devastateur au niveau d'mes intestinc ... Pinku-tk Diary Entry
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