recrudescent

[ ree-kroo-des-uhnt ]

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.

Example Sentences

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

From Los Angeles Times

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

From Project Gutenberg

The Nemedians meanwhile supplied similarly a recrudescent race, the Tuatha Dé Danann, of whom came the Dagda,—the all-king, almost the Zeus of ancient Ireland.

From Project Gutenberg

He hurried to his wife with the picture, and she called it “Mamise” with a recrudescent anguish of doubt.

From Project Gutenberg

Then the owner died, bankrupt, and for years it remained untenanted, the recrudescent bush slowly enveloping its once highly cultivated lands, and the deadly black snake, iguana, and 'possum harbouring among the deserted outbuildings.

From Project Gutenberg