recrudesce

intr.v., -desced, -desc·ing, -desc·es.
To break out anew or come into renewed activity, as after a period of quiescence.

[Latin recrūdēscere, to grow raw again : re-, re- + crūdēscere, to get worse (from crūdus, raw).]

recrudescence re'cru·des'cence n.
recrudescent re'cru·des'cent adj.

In her second column since returning from book leave, Maureen Dowd topped our alt-click list with recrudescing:

"The fundamentalist Taliban is recrudescing in Afghanistan"

Link: Reformer Without Results - New York Times.

Posted August 14, 2005.

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verb

To come back to a former condition: recur, reoccur, return, revert. See repetition.

Recurrence of clinical signs after temporary abatement; a recrudescence occurs after some days or weeks, a relapse after weeks or months.

to break out anew after a dormant period

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