recrudesce
verb /ˌriːkruːˈdes/
/ˌriːkruːˈdes/
[intransitive] (formal)Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they recrudesce | /ˌriːkruːˈdes/ /ˌriːkruːˈdes/ |
| he / she / it recrudesces | /ˌriːkruːˈdesɪz/ /ˌriːkruːˈdesɪz/ |
| past simple recrudesced | /ˌriːkruːˈdest/ /ˌriːkruːˈdest/ |
| past participle recrudesced | /ˌriːkruːˈdest/ /ˌriːkruːˈdest/ |
| -ing form recrudescing | /ˌriːkruːˈdesɪŋ/ /ˌriːkruːˈdesɪŋ/ |
- (especially of something bad) to happen again synonym recurWord Originlate 19th cent.: back-formation from recrudescence ‘recurrence’, from Latin recrudescere ‘become raw again’, from re- ‘again’ + crudus ‘raw’.