RESURFACE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does resurface mean? 

• RESURFACE (verb)
  The verb RESURFACE has 3 senses:

1. reappear on the surface

2. cover with a new surface

3. appear again

  Familiarity information: RESURFACE used as a verb is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RESURFACE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they resurface    ... he / she / it resurfaces   
Past simple: resurfaced   
Past participle: resurfaced   
-ing form: resurfacing   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Reappear on the surface

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Hypernyms (to "resurface" is one way to...):

come up; rise; rise up; surface (come to the surface)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s
Somebody ----s

Sense 2

Meaning:

Cover with a new surface

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Hypernyms (to "resurface" is one way to...):

coat; surface (put a coat on; cover the surface of; furnish with a surface)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Sense 3

Meaning:

Appear again

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Context example:

The missing man suddenly resurfaced in New York

Hypernyms (to "resurface" is one way to...):

re-emerge; reappear (appear again)

Sentence frames:

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

 Context examples 

Smaller impacts would have then created new craters on the resurfaced area.

(The Case of the Missing Ceres Craters, NASA)

Treatments include exercise, medications to control pain, and surgery to reposition or resurface the joint or to replace it with an artificial one.

(Stem cells grown on scaffold mimic hip joint cartilage, NIH)

The smoothness of the plains, as well as their grooves and faint ridges, are clear signs of wide-scale resurfacing.

(Pluto’s Big Moon Charon Reveals a Colorful and Violent History, NASA)

Samsung offered replacement units to all of its customers, before reports resurfaced of overheating with the new devices, raising fresh doubts about the firm's quality control abilities

(Samsung Ends Production of Problem-Plagued Galaxy Note 7, Voanews)