recrudescent

American  

[ree-kroo-des-uhnt] / ˌri kruˈdɛs ənt /

adjective

1. 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

The theater’s rich intellectual inheritance serves as a buffer to society’s recrudescent stupidity.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 4, 2024

It was an ideal episode for his recrudescent success story for Downey did his telephonic trial while his wife was undergoing a surgical operation.*

From Time Magazine Archive

Her voice fell; she was trembling with the recrudescent suffering of that year-long servitude.

From The Lone Wolf A Melodrama by Vance, Louis Joseph

Thereby the conjugal peace, which had been disturbed by long-continued altercation, was utterly destroyed by recrudescent hatred.

From The Old Yellow Book Source of Robert Browning's The Ring and the Book by Anonymous

Amazing to say, none of these "more primitive phases of belief," none of the recrudescent savage magic, was intruded by the late Ionian poets into the Iliad which they continued, by the theory.

From Homer and His Age by Lang, Andrew