Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- v. To break out anew or come into renewed activity, as after a period of quiescence.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- To become raw or exacerbated again.
- To revive; become alive again; be renewed.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- v. To be in a state of recrudescence; esp., to come into renewed freshness, vigor, or activity; to revive.
WordNet 3.0
- v. happen.
- v. become raw or open
Etymologies
- Latin recrūdēscere, to grow raw again : re-, re- + crūdēscere, to get worse (from crūdus, raw; see kreuə- in Indo-European roots). (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“(Originally scheduled to recrudesce this coming fall, Prospect 2 has been delayed until 2011.)”
“Let's hope that issue doesn't recrudesce; that's history.”
“My personal resolution for 2006 is to not let this mentality recrudesce ... to check myself before I so readily "identify the enemy," so to speak.”
“It disappeared amongst the people, only to recrudesce in some localities as fresh infection was introduced by the white man, or brought back to the settlements by visits to the white towns.”
“Nor from within the darkened chamber of himself could reality recrudesce.”
“But Jargon finds, maybe, the most of its votaries among good douce people who have never written to or for a newspaper in their life, who would never talk of adverse climatic conditions when they mean bad weather; who have never trifled with verbs such as obsess, recrudesce, envisage, adumbrate, or with phrases such as the psychological moment, the true inwardness, it gives furiously to think.”
“It was noticeable that in these rambling soliloquies his English seemed to recrudesce into better construction and phraseology.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘recrudesce’.
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set phasers to...
you name the setting
I've tuned mine to be gentler and kinder
following suit is not mandatory but would be appreciatedcoddle, confuse, flummox, tap, furrow, instigate, invigorate, punnify, logical, must... act... be..., bowdlerise, laughing gas and 435 more...
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Logolepsy
"Luciferous Logolepsy is a collection of over 9,000 obscure English words. Though the definition of an 'English' word might seem to be straightforward, it is not. There exist so many adopted, deriv...
Anschauung, Areopagus, Argus, Briarean, Dei gratia, Dei judicium, Deo volente, Duecento, Foehn, Geflugelte Worte, Gegenschein, Hakenkreuz and 9230 more...
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bintalshamsa's list
My Favorite Words
weltschmerz, perspicacity, idée fixe, invigilator, salubrious, tchotchke, ex nihilo, invidious, malapropism, naïve, sardonic, elide and 1402 more...
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List Erine
cool mint antiseptic
shalom, cattywampus, bourgeoisie, aerophile, traverse, grotto, epicurean, ex cathedra, nautilus, epitaph, lathe, continuum and 753 more...
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MY list
Words i have a hard time with.
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Zooey's list
cosmology, consummate, demiurge, paradisiacal, reconnaissance, intransigent, otiose, zeitgeist, coalesce, zeitgeber, absolve, abstruse and 105 more...
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Favorite Verbs and Verb Forms
Culling my main Favorites list, and noticing how few of my favorite words are verbs. I'll have to work on that...
stupefy, eschew, gurgle, affianced, imbue, disconcerting, schlep, begrimed, wizened, woolgathering, lounge, flank and 94 more...
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What David Foster Wallace circled in ...
ablative, ablaut, abulia, acephalous, ACTH, adit, adumbrate, agrapha, ailanthus, aleatory, alfresco, algolagnia and 474 more...
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What David Foster Wallace Circled in ...
http://www.slate.com/id/2250784/
ablative absolute, ablaut, abulia, acephalous, ACTH, adit, adumbrate, agrapha, aleatory, ailanthus, alfresco, algolagnia and 482 more...
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Zoological Terms
Terms used in Zoology
papilionaceous, actinost, gressorial, exuviate, nitid, trochal, demiss, loculus, crebrity, limes, pachytrichous, pachydactyl and 319 more...
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fbharjo's Words
jumelle, kef, kenspeckle, lautitious, essentic, pilpulistic, impavid, cicurant, clou, chrysostomic, miasma, teleology and 1625 more...
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5-0
Hecko, words! I’m so happy I’ve found you. I want to keep you all and never want to lose you again. I hope you like it here.
amscray, thistledown, tine, tinsel, pungent, snarl, wail, lanky, viscid, dawdle, luminous, stow and 2719 more...
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Physiological Terms
Terms used in physiology
contabescence, infix, instill, demulcent, pachystichous, pachyhaemous, adrenal, suprarenal, adrenocorticotropic, remedial, flaccid, phosphene and 136 more...
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Botanical Terms
Terms used in botany
contabescence, effloresce, foliate, acervate, nuciform, feracious, fructuous, bifarious, serotinous, sative, demiss, tardive and 168 more...
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Marginilia
intertextuality, queer, serendipity, eerie, semiotics, schadenfreude, calliope, logophile, marginalia, reductio ad absurdum, dabble, minutia and 141 more...
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EN - funny (single) words
"Fornication" is not equal to "formication".
Words with funny meaning, spelling or both.barratry, bastinado, bezonian, bibcock, bibliobibuli, biffy, bodewash, boeotian, boondoggle, borborygmic, bosky, brobdingnagian and 729 more...
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