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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | take turns, change back and forth |
| Synonyms: | act reciprocally, alter, blow hot and cold, change, come and go, exchange, fill in for, fluctuate, follow, follow in turn, interchange, intersperse, oscillate, relieve, rotate, seesaw, shift, shilly-shally, substitute, sway, vacillate, vary, waver, yo-yo |
| Notes: | alternate means 'one after the other' or 'each succeeding the other in turn, especially continuously' and alternative means 'one instead of the other' or 'allowing or necessitating a choice between two or more things' |
| Antonyms: | continue |
| Main Entry: | reoccur |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | recur |
| Synonyms: | be remembered, be repeated, come again, come and go, come back, crop up again, haunt thoughts, iterate, persist, reappear, recrudesce, reiterate, repeat, return, return to mind, revert, run through one's mind, turn back |
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