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recrudescent
[ ree-kroo-des-uhnt ]
adjective
- breaking out afresh or into renewed activity; reviving or reappearing:
Recrudescent tuberculosis in that part of the world is presenting challenges for some ill-equipped health systems.
The region is haunted by the specter of ethnic chauvinism and a recrudescent nationalism.
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Example Sentences
He hurried to his wife with the picture, and she called it “Mamise” with a recrudescent anguish of doubt.
After-images or recrudescent memories coming up from the subconscious strata to which they had fallen.
Yet the bottom stone in the wall of recrudescent admiration was the certainty that he had found a sympathetic ear.
He swore sharply and slapped again at a recrudescent flame upon his leg.
No words were needed for the man to know how utterly lost was his recrudescent hope.
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