Associations to the word «Recidivate»

Wiktionary

RECIDIVATE, verb. (intransitive) To return to criminal behaviour; to relapse

Dictionary definition

RECIDIVATE, verb. Go back to bad behavior; "Those who recidivate are often minor criminals".

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope