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.
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