RECIDIVATE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does recidivate mean? 

• RECIDIVATE (verb)
  The verb RECIDIVATE has 1 sense:

1. go back to bad behavior

  Familiarity information: RECIDIVATE used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RECIDIVATE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they recidivate    ... he / she / it recidivates   
Past simple: recidivated   
Past participle: recidivated   
-ing form: recidivating   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Go back to bad behavior

Classified under:

Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care

Synonyms:

fall back; lapse; recidivate; regress; relapse; retrogress

Context example:

Those who recidivate are often minor criminals

Hypernyms (to "recidivate" is one way to...):

regress; retrovert; return; revert; turn back (go back to a previous state)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s

Derivation:

recidivism (habitual relapse into crime)