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RE-EMERGE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does re-emerge mean? 

RE-EMERGE (verb)
  The verb RE-EMERGE has 1 sense:

1. appear againplay

  Familiarity information: RE-EMERGE used as a verb is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


RE-EMERGE (verb)

 Conjugation: 
Present simple: I / you / we / they re-emerge  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation ... he / she / it re-emerges  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation
Past simple: re-emerged  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation
Past participle: re-emerged  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation
-ing form: re-emerging  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation


Sense 1

Meaning:

Appear again

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

re-emerge; reappear

Context example:

Her husband reappeared after having left her years ago

Hypernyms (to "re-emerge" is one way to...):

appear (come into sight or view)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "re-emerge"):

resurface (appear again)

come back; return (be restored)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s
Somebody ----s
Something is ----ing PP
Somebody ----s PP


 Context examples 


Anything that comes within a black hole's "event horizon," its point of no return, will be consumed, never to re-emerge, because of the black hole's unimaginably strong gravity.

(Black Hole Image Makes History, NASA)

Powassan is the only endemic flavivirus spread by ticks in North America, where it is considered a re-emerging virus.

(Tick salivary glands can be a tool to study virus transmission and infection, National Institutes of Health)

Any delay runs the risk that the virus could find refuge and cause damage in the brain, where some medications are less effective – potentially enabling it to re-emerge, even after it is suppressed in the periphery.

(HIV can spread early, evolve in patients’ brains, NIH)



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