REAPPEAR

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does reappear mean? 

• REAPPEAR (verb)
  The verb REAPPEAR has 1 sense:

1. appear again

  Familiarity information: REAPPEAR used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• REAPPEAR (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they reappear    ... he / she / it reappears   
Past simple: reappeared   
Past participle: reappeared   
-ing form: reappearing   

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 "reappear" is one way to...):

appear (come into sight or view)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "reappear"):

resurface (appear again)

come back; return (be restored)

Sentence frames:

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

Derivation:

reappearance (the act of someone appearing again)

reappearance (the event of something appearing again)

 Context examples 

After the first fortnight or three weeks of her absence, health, good humour, and cheerfulness began to reappear at Longbourn.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

Mr. Micawber immediately reappeared, and shook hands with me again.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

The next moment the flash of yellow reappeared before his eyes.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

Wolf waited for him to reappear. He waited a long minute, silently, quietly, without movement, as though turned to stone—withal stone quick with eagerness and desire. He barked once, and waited.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

Once more the Ghost bore away before the storm, this time so submerging herself that for some seconds I thought she would never reappear.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Nor was it long before the little man reappeared.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

He dashed into the cottage, and, reappearing with the burning lamp held at full arm’s length, he threw it among a bank of brambles.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The track which guided him was one so seldom used that in places it lost itself entirely among the grass, to reappear as a reddish rut between the distant tree trunks.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Instantly the figure reappeared, and making a wide circuit, began to head me off.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

Refers to a tumor that has spread to anatomic sites away from the original site of growth or has reappeared in any anatomic site.

(Metastatic/Recurrent, NCI Thesaurus)