go back vs recur

go back

verb
  • To go back on. 

  • To return to a place or state after having been there at a previous time. 

  • To have known each other for a certain length of time. 

  • To extend into past time. 

recur

verb
  • To happen again. 

  • To recurse. 

  • To come to the mind again. 

How often have the words go back and recur occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )