recommences

Picks back up

Recommences means begins again after an interruption or pause.

The word implies a resumption of something that was already underway: Classes recommence after the holiday break.

It's slightly more formal than "start again" or "resume," often appearing in official announcements or written notices.

resumption

resumes

Job applicants' summaries

relaunches · reinitiates · reestablishes · reinstates · reconvenes · picks up · gets back to · carries on · reengages · renews

renewal

revives

Restores vigor or consciousness

refreshes · rejuvenates · reinvigorates · springs back · bounces back · resurges · reemerges · resurfaces · comes back · recovers

Opposites
continuation vs. cessation

recommencesstops

Ceases to continue

ceases · ends · terminates · concludes · halts

resumption vs. finality

recommencesconcludes

Brings to an end

finishes · completes · wraps up · winds down · finalizes

Family

recommence, recommenced, recommencement, recommencing

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