resurge

[ ri-surj ]

verb (used without object)

, re·surged, re·surg·ing.

1. to rise again, as from desuetude or from virtual extinction.

resurge

/ rɪˈsɜːdʒ /

verb

1. rare.
   intr to rise again from or as if from the dead

Word History and Origins

Origin of resurge¹

1565–75; < Latin resurgere to rise again, appear again, equivalent to re- re- + surgere to lift up, raise, variant of surrigere ( sur- sur- ² + -rigere, combining form of regere to direct, rule)

Word History and Origins

Origin of resurge¹

C16: from Latin resurgere to rise again, reappear, from re- + surgere to lift, arise, surge

Example Sentences

Independent agencies are resurging, and they need to create exemplary work environments to sustain the momentum.

From Digiday

Summer resurges over the weekend with building heat and humidity just in time for the longest day of the year Sunday.

From Washington Post

No one knows how the pandemic will evolve, resurge or dissipate as we all start to come together.

From Digiday

They were “pristine prey,” as Mukherjee puts it, when the virus resurged this spring.

From Time

In years to come, it will probably become an endemic disease, periodically resurging like the seasonal flu.

From Popular-Science

It is the years of boyhood and youth which resurge in my consciousness; their tints are vivid, their tones are clear.

From Project Gutenberg

Potch lifted her hand to his lips, a resurge of the virile male in him moving his restraint.

From Project Gutenberg

At his words of authority concerning the girl I loved I felt a resurge of the old suspicion and jealousy.

From Project Gutenberg