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verb

recrudesce

to break out or become active again after a period of quiet

In a sentence

Six example sentences with recrudesce, each labelled with its topic.

  • The rash can recrudesce months after treatment ends, so the clinic asks patients to return for one final check.

    Medicine

  • Border disputes that seemed settled by the treaty began to recrudesce once the generation that signed it had gone.

    History

  • Fires in that peat bog recrudesce each dry summer, smouldering underground long after the surface flames look extinguished.

    Environment

  • Old rivalries between the two parties recrudesce every election season, no matter how warmly their leaders shook hands in spring.

    Politics

  • Price rises tend to recrudesce once controls are lifted, which is why the ministry loosened them one sector at a time.

    Economics

  • Childhood fears can recrudesce under adult stress, and a patient who hated the dark at six may dread it again at forty.

    Psychology

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