Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Growing raw, sore, or painful again.
- Coming into existence or renewed vigor again.
Wiktionary
- adj. breaking out again or reemerging after temporary abatement or suppression
- adj. growing raw, sore, or painful again
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Growing raw, sore, or painful again.
- adj. Breaking out again after temporary abatement or supression.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. the revival of an unfortunate situation after a period of abatement
Examples
“Less a musical extravaganza than a pre-emptive wake, the summer "classic rock" festival is clouded by the shadow of the Grim Reaper, marking the triumph of the recrudescent, the cataleptic and James Taylor.”
The Wall Street Journal: Rockers Too Far Up the Stairway to Heaven
“Before he knew it, with a recrudescent guilty pang, he had tossed the half-smoked cigar away and slackened his pace until his feet dragged in the old lifeless, East Falls manner.”
“Because of a recrudescent nativism, we send home thousands upon thousands of foreign students who have gotten masters and doctoral degrees in the hard sciences at American universities.”
“I mean what will these recrudescent culture warriors do if they cannot refight the 1990's with a boring candidate and her overwrought spouse?”
Obama's Victory Speech: "The Status Quo Is Fighting Back With Everything It's Got"
“Instead of ending, history looped back on itself, and we are now confronted by a recrudescent and particularly virulent religious ideology straight out of the Middle Ages.”
Wired: In a Letter to His Kids, Wired's Founding Editor Recalls the Dawn of the Digital Revolution
“Instead, given the terrain of Pakistan's western borderlands, the strikes are more likely to result in civilian casualties, provoke more public anger, and ultimately fail in suppressing the recrudescent Taliban.”
“Smaller ethnic communities in Kosovo are also at risk, in the face of a recrudescent Albanian nationalism.”
“It is increasingly challenged by the recrudescent Taliban and new recruits who have regained control of much of the south.”
“For Levinas, Heidegger's philosophy was a thinking of the neuter, a recrudescent paganism that sacralized natural events and anonymous forces.”
“If you mix in patrician circles in the U.K., you will cast an eye over ITV's diet of game shows, advertisements, celebrity-driven news, recrudescent James Bond seasons, hammy homegrown soap operas and motor racing, and marvel that anybody would want anything to do with this philistine Elysium.”
Forbes: People To Watch: March 27-31The Week Ahead: March 27-31
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘recrudescent’.
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cicatrix
scar tissue
minatory, naira, Cluniac, embracive, prolix, hierophant, timorous, adduce, veracious, dysphoric, sang-froid, vitiate and 414 more...
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Proustian -escent words
Proust (or Montcleiff) had a proclivity for the rhythm and tone of this sort of word. Help build the collection if you can.
Also, Transvertebration; can anyone define it? It's more o...senescent, opalescent, arborescent, efflorescent, deliquescent, effervescent, recrudescent, iridescent, somnolescent, convalescent, incandescent
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Fun words to say
Casey "They were all-but-forgotten people: the breed that was remembered with a start, or with the unreality of a recrudescent dream." From Titus Groan by Mervyn Peake. Feb 12, 2011
tedbeam I think this word, which means breaking out again or renewing should be dusted off and brought back into use. Plus, it's just a fun word to say. May 16, 2009
uselessness Something bad happens: "Oh crud."
Time passes.
Something worse happens: "Oh crud, again." Jan 17, 2008
asativum Once a lad from the fertile crescent
had an idea he considered incandescent:
He treated his chlamydia
with baths most fastidia,
But his condition soon proved recrudescent
Dec 20, 2007