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resurgent

[ ri-sur-juhnt ]

adjective

  1. rising or tending to rise again; reviving; renascent.


resurgent

/ rɪˈsɜːdʒənt /

adjective

  1. rising again, as to new life, vigour, etc

    resurgent nationalism



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Derived Forms

  • reˈsurgence, noun

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Other Words From

  • re·sur·gence noun

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Word History and Origins

Origin of resurgent1

First recorded in 1760–70, resurgent is from the Latin word resurgent- (stem of resurgēns, present participle of resurgere ); resurge, -ent

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Example Sentences

To target the resurgent Nazi movement, X-2 recruited some 13 agents in Munich and had another dozen under consideration.

Atlanta soon flourished, becoming the resurgent urban center of an otherwise impoverished South.

But will 9,800 troops be enough to keep a resurgent al Qaeda out?

The Crimean Tatars, however, who were shipped away to Kazakhastan by Stalin after WWII, have no desire to join a resurgent Russia.

Toll Brothers is just a smaller part of a larger story of a resurgent housing market in 2012.

He said it almost with a sneer, but nothing could crush the resurgent glow in her heart.

But young Charley was more susceptible than most, and this—on the impulse of the next tide resurgent—saved him from his type.

The idea that Milly might even now be resurgent fluttered Tims's pulses with a mixed emotion.

With the unheeded warning resurgent and clamoring in his ears, Smith knelt horror-stricken beside the fallen man.

Its resurgent dirge stirs vague forebodings which root in the calamitous experience of the race.

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