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Recidivate

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

verb-intransitive. To return to a previous pattern of behavior, especially to return to criminal habits.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

v. To return to criminal behaviour; to relapse

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

verb-intransitive. To backslide; to fall again.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

To fall back, relapse, or backslide; return to an abandoned course of conduct.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

v. go back to bad behavior

Word Usage

"If we invest in providing education and training to those at risk of becoming or remaining criminals, the chance that they will recidivate goes down exponentially with each grade level completed."

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

retrovert regress revert turn back return

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

backslide relapse