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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of recrudesce.

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Examples

  • It was in 1987, the Great Truce having been dissolved, that the ancient quarrel between France and Germany over Alsace-Lorraine recrudesced.

    THE UNPARALLELED INVASION 2010

  • The old long sickness, which had been purely an intellectual sickness, recrudesced.

    Chapter 35 2010

  • It recrudesced the laughter and the song, and put a lilt into my own imagination so that I could laugh and sing and say foolish things with the liveliest of them, or platitudes with verve and intensity to the satisfaction of the pompous mediocre ones who knew no other way to talk.

    Chapter 29 2010

  • Many times, in the jacket, has Adam Strang recrudesced, but always he springs into being full-statured, heavy-thewed, a full thirty years of age.

    Chapter 15 2010

  • That phrase, learned in boyhood from my Marryatt and Cooper, recrudesced in my brain.

    CHAPTER XLII 2010

  • Did her frank comradeliness with Grandison token merely frank comradeliness and childhood contacts continued and recrudesced into adult years? or did it hide, in woman's subtler and more secretive ways, a beat of heart and return of feeling that might even out-balance what Sonny's face advertised?

    THE KANAKA SURF 2010

  • Strange to say, the gale, after easing to a mild breeze, recrudesced in a sort of after-clap.

    CHAPTER XLVI 2010

  • And as the old hunting instincts had aroused that day in the wolf-dog, so in him recrudesced all the old hot desire of gold-hunting.

    Chapter XXVII 2010

  • Did her frank comradeliness with Grandison token merely frank comradeliness and childhood contacts continued and recrudesced into adult years? or did it hide, in woman's subtler and more secretive ways, a beat of heart and return of feeling that might even out - balance what Sonny's face advertised?

    The Kanaka Surf 1919

  • Many times in the jacket has Adam Strang recrudesced, but always he springs into being full-statured, heavy-thawed, a full thirty years of age.

    Chapter 15 1915

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