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Resurface

//ɹiːˈsɜːfɪs// verb

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Verb
  1. 1
    To come once again to the surface. intransitive

    "His body finally resurfaced after three years underwater."

  2. 2
    to come out of obscurity or hiding wordnet
  3. 3
    To surface again; to reappear or re-occur. intransitive

    "Just as amazing, gruesome morgue photos of some of the madman's street-walker victims also resurfaced after being missing for decades."

  4. 4
    cover with a new surface wordnet
  5. 5
    To make something reappear. rare, transitive

    "Tourian's poem exhibits a central strand of the Catholic tradition which has been suppressed in Armenian religious life but needs to be resurfaced."

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  1. 6
    reappear on the surface wordnet
  2. 7
    To provide a new surface, to replace or remodel the surface of something, or to restore a surface. To put a new coating or finish on a surface. transitive

    "A zamboni is a big machine that resurfaces ice at a rink so it is smooth as glass for the skaters."

Etymology

From re- + surface.

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