to resurface
- verb
- /ˌriːˈsɜːrfɪs/
- Despite trying to forget the past, emotions from her old relationship started to resurface during their encounter.
- resurface again
- resurface later
- begin to resurface
But now she's resurfaced and her hair is darker.
- But now she's resurfaced and her hair is darker.
- The government shut it down and now it's resurfacing.
- And then I'm not sure how it resurfaced.
- And when this film was about to come out, Piccini resurfaced.
- So moving forward from that, those red flags just started to keep resurfacing.
- So the issue of what happens to males, I think is now resurfacing in a in an interesting way.
- The clip, since we've done the podcast, the clips of the reality show kind of start resurfacing.
- I think that's where like being sort of a victim of early trauma really resurfaced there.
- And I mean in the last decades, nobody was talking about that that much, but now it's resurfacing.
- This psychoanalist predicted hypnosis on him, so hypnosis to produce so that's memories can resurface again.
- The sentence kept resurfacing, echoed in individual lines, but more so between lines and poems across the two volumes.
- So I'm very excited and proud to resurface this clip, this excerpt between me and T Colin Campbell on the power of a plant based diet.
- As somebody who kind of resurfaced the prominence of American women in that distance, we have such a good group right now.
Examples
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As in Yugoslavia and Eastern Europe, past ethnic and political tensions are resurfacing in new forms.
Academic text (1992) -
Every few years, attention on him has resurfaced as new students discover his views.
Academic text (2017) -
And it's a it's an episode, her dream in which the whole issue of books will resurface again.
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A lot of old feelings can resurface and...
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His issues were bound to resurface.
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And, when Dad passed away, memories of it started to resurface in fragments.
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You can try to drown the truth in lies, but it will always resurface.
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The PR executive who was believed dead in Michigan has resurfaced.
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Here, old quarrels are also resurfacing, and the course of future events is unlikely to prove smooth.
Academic text (1990) -
Abstract: Natural-resource-based export-oriented growth strategies have resurfaced as the dominant development approach in Latin America.
Academic text (2001)
Synonyms
To come into view or become visible
To come out from behind or under something and become visible
To appear after being lost or when not expected
Make something active or popular again after a time of being forgotten
To come back into sight after being away for a time
To appear again after being away or hidden
To appear again after being gone or invisible
To appear again in the game after being defeated
To become active again after a slow or quiet time
Antonyms
How Visible
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Resurface comes from the parts re- 'again' and surface 'top layer', so imagine a diver coming up to the water's surface again. That's why to resurface means to appear or become visible again.