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RECRUDESCE
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I. (verb)
Verb forms
Present simple: I / you / we / they recrudesce ... he / she / it recrudesces
Past simple: recrudesced
Past participle: recrudesced
-ing form: recrudescing
Sense 1
Meaning:
Become raw or open
Example:
Such boils tend to recrudesce
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
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
Sense 2
Meaning:
Happen
Example:
These political movements recrudesce from time to time
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
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)
