recrudescent

From Latin recrūdēscō (“I become raw again”); from re- + crūdēscō (“I become harsh or raw”).

• IPA^(key): /ˌɹɛkɹu(ː)ˈdɛsənt/, /ˌɹikɹu(ː)ˈdɛsənt/
• Rhymes: -ɛsənt

recrudescent (not comparable)

1. Breaking out again or reemerging after temporary abatement or suppression.

   This seems to be a recrudescent strain of the plague rather than a wholly new disease.

2. (archaic) Growing raw, sore, or painful again.

• recurrent
• reemergent

• recrudescence

• IPA^(key): /ʁə.kʁy.dɛ.sɑ̃/ ~ /ʁə.kʁy.de.sɑ̃/

recrudescent (feminine recrudescente, masculine plural recrudescents, feminine plural recrudescentes)

1. recrudescent, reemerging

• recrudescence

• “recrudescent”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Borrowed from French recrudescent.

recrudescent m or n (feminine singular recrudescentă, masculine plural recrudescenți, feminine and neuter plural recrudescente)

1. recrudescent