MEANING
To break out again or become active after a period of dormancy, suppression, or apparent quiet.
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Old hostilities recrudesced when the border dispute resurfaced.
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Word forms
- Base
- recrudesce
- Past tense
- recrudesced
- Past participle
- recrudesced
- Present participle
- recrudescing
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- recrudesce
- Present continuous
- am/is/are recrudescing
- Present perfect
- have/has recrudesced
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been recrudescing
- Past
- recrudesced
- Past continuous
- was/were recrudescing
- Past perfect
- had recrudesced
- Past perfect continuous
- had been recrudescing
- Future
- will recrudesce
- Future continuous
- will be recrudescing
- Future perfect
- will have recrudesced
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been recrudescing
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