Definitions | recrudescent |
| adjective
- breaking out again or reemerging after temporary abatement or suppression
- usage: This seems to be a recrudescent strain of the plague rather than a new disease altogether.
- (archaic) growing raw, sore, or painful again
Etymology: From the Latin recrudescere "to become raw again"; from re- + crudescere "to become hard or raw"
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