recrudesce
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Definition
- Verb:
- To break out again or become active again after a period of inactivity or quiescence: Used primarily in medical contexts to describe the recurrence of a disease, symptoms, or a sore. It implies a sudden, often unwelcome, reappearance.
- To occur or happen again; to flare up: Used more generally to describe the revival or renewed outbreak of something, such as conflict, problems, or social movements.
Usage Examples
Verb (Medical Context):
- The patient's infection appeared to heal but then recrudesced a week later.
- Malaria can recrudesce months after the initial illness if not treated completely.
Verb (General Context):
- Ethnic tensions in the region have recrudesced after years of relative peace.
- Debates about political reform recrudesce every election cycle.
Advanced Usage
- "to recrudesce into": to break out again and develop into a particular state.
- The local dispute recrudesced into a full-scale conflict.
- Used often in formal, academic, or literary writing to describe the re-emergence of negative phenomena.
Variants and Related Words
- Recrudescence (n): The act of breaking out again; a renewed outbreak.
- The recrudescence of violence was a major setback for peace talks.
- Recrudescent (adj): Breaking out again; recurring.
- The doctor was concerned about recrudescent symptoms.
Synonyms
- Recur: To happen or occur again.
- Flare up: To suddenly become more active, violent, or severe.
- Reappear: To appear again.
- Relapse: (Specifically in medicine) To deteriorate after a period of improvement.
Related Phrases
- Break out again: A more common phrase with a similar meaning to 'recrudesce' in medical and general contexts.
- The rash broke out again just when we thought it was gone.
Verb
- become raw or open
- He broke out in hives
- My skin breaks out when I eat strawberries
- Such boils tend to recrudesce
- happen
- Report the news as it develops
- These political movements recrudesce from time to time