RECRUDESCE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does recrudesce mean? 

• RECRUDESCE (verb)
  The verb RECRUDESCE has 2 senses:

1. happen

2. become raw or open

  Familiarity information: RECRUDESCE used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RECRUDESCE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they recrudesce    ... he / she / it recrudesces   
Past simple: recrudesced   
Past participle: recrudesced   
-ing form: recrudescing   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Happen

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

break; develop; recrudesce

Context example:

These political movements recrudesce from time to time

Hypernyms (to "recrudesce" is one way to...):

come about; fall out; go on; hap; happen; occur; pass; pass off; take place (come to pass)

Verb group:

develop (be gradually disclosed or unfolded; become manifest)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s

Derivation:

recrudescence (a return of something after a period of abatement)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Become raw or open

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

break out; erupt; recrudesce

Context example:

Such boils tend to recrudesce

Hypernyms (to "recrudesce" is one way to...):

ail; pain; trouble (cause bodily suffering to and make sick or indisposed)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s
Somebody ----s