Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- intransitive verb To break out anew or come into renewed activity, as after a period of quiescence.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To become raw or exacerbated again.
- To revive; become alive again; be renewed.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- intransitive verb To be in a state of recrudescence; esp., to come into renewed freshness, vigor, or activity; to revive.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb intransitive to
recur , orbreak out anew after adormant period
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb happen
- verb become raw or open
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Nor from within the darkened chamber of himself could reality recrudesce.
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It was noticeable that in these rambling soliloquies his English seemed to recrudesce into better construction and phraseology.
Page 6 2010
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(Originally scheduled to recrudesce this coming fall, Prospect 2 has been delayed until 2011.)
Blague d'Art: Apres le Deluge, Moi Peter Frank 2010
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(Originally scheduled to recrudesce this coming fall, Prospect 2 has been delayed until 2011.)
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Let's hope that issue doesn't recrudesce; that's history.
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My personal resolution for 2006 is to not let this mentality recrudesce ... to check myself before I so readily "identify the enemy," so to speak.
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It disappeared amongst the people, only to recrudesce in some localities as fresh infection was introduced by the white man, or brought back to the settlements by visits to the white towns.
Venereal Diseases in New Zealand (1922) Report of the Special Committee of the Board of Health appointed by the Hon. Minister of Health New Zealand. Committee of the Board of Health
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Nor from within the darkened chamber of himself could reality recrudesce.
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But Jargon finds, maybe, the most of its votaries among good douce people who have never written to or for a newspaper in their life, who would never talk of adverse climatic conditions when they mean bad weather; who have never trifled with verbs such as obsess, recrudesce, envisage, adumbrate, or with phrases such as the psychological moment, the true inwardness, it gives furiously to think.
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It was noticeable that in these rambling soliloquies his English seemed to recrudesce into better construction and phraseology.
The Scarlet Plague 1912
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