The recrudescence of his old complaint was disheartening.
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Recrudescence
//ˌɹiːkɹuːˈdɛs(ə)ns//
Synonyms for "recrudescence" (49 found)
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11 translations across 8 languages.
Bulgarian
1 entries- рецидив noun (acute recurrence of a disease, or its symptoms, after a period of improvement)
French
1 entries- recrudescence noun (acute recurrence of a disease, or its symptoms, after a period of improvement)
Georgian
1 entries- რეციდივი noun (acute recurrence of a disease, or its symptoms, after a period of improvement)
German
1 entries- Wiedererstarken noun (condition or state of being recrudescent)
Greek
2 entries- επανεμφάνιση noun (acute recurrence of a disease, or its symptoms, after a period of improvement)
- υποτροπή noun (acute recurrence of a disease, or its symptoms, after a period of improvement)
Italian
1 entries- recrudescenza noun (acute recurrence of a disease, or its symptoms, after a period of improvement)
Russian
2 entries- обостре́ние noun (acute recurrence of a disease, or its symptoms, after a period of improvement)
- рециди́в noun (acute recurrence of a disease, or its symptoms, after a period of improvement)
Spanish
2 entries- recrudecimiento noun (acute recurrence of a disease, or its symptoms, after a period of improvement)
- recrudescencia noun (acute recurrence of a disease, or its symptoms, after a period of improvement)
Sample sentences
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The population of particular countries, or districts of country, may be given up to less improving pursuits than those of agriculture. A recrudescence of barbarism may condemn it [i.e., land] to chronic poverty and waste.
Source: wiktionary
A blinding sunlight drowned all this at times in a sudden recrudescence of glare.
Source: wiktionary
Of course, bad habits die hard, and even with the new policy there were recrudescences of the prior practices in the following years.
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