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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • intransitive verb To rise again; undergo resurgence.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • To rise again: in allusion to the motto resurgam, used on funeral hatchments.
  • To surge back; swing back or rebound: said specifically of that portion of an oscillation in which the movement is away from the position of maximum displacement and toward equilibrium.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • verb To surge again; to go through a period of renewed vigor or vitality.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • verb rise again

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Latin resurgere : re-, re- + surgere, to rise; see surge.]

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