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Recidivate

verb

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Verb
  1. 1
    To relapse into a previous pattern of behavior, especially to commit new offenses after having been punished or sanctioned for earlier ones. intransitive
  2. 2
    go back to bad behavior wordnet

Etymology

Adapted borrowing of Medieval Latin recidīvātus + -ate (verb-forming suffix), past participle of recidīvō, from Latin recidīvus (“returning, recurring”) + -ō (verb-forming suffix). Compare French récidiver. By surface analysis, recidive + -ate

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