resurface
Appearance
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /ɹiːˈsɜː(ɹ)fɪs/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
Verb
[edit]resurface (third-person singular simple present resurfaces, present participle resurfacing, simple past and past participle resurfaced)
- (intransitive) To come once again to the surface.
- His body finally resurfaced after three years underwater.
- (intransitive) To surface again; to reappear or re-occur.
- 1992 October 27, “Weekly World News”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), page 37:
- Just as amazing, gruesome morgue photos of some of the madman's street-walker victims also resurfaced after being missing for decades.
- 2017 August 13, Brandon Nowalk, “Oldtown offers one last game-changing secret as Game Of Thrones goes behind enemy lines (newbies)”, in The Onion AV Club[1]:
- Subplots that might have been fun to explore were relegated or eventually sidelined altogether in the case of characters like Gendry, who disappeared for years and finally resurfaces as a blacksmith in King’s Landing, literally waiting for the call to his hero’s journey.
- 2022 November 16, Paul Stephen, “Stations earn a deserved NRA ovation: Small: Shanklin”, in RAIL, number 970, page 49:
- The Landguard Road overbridge to the south has subsequently been removed, although aspirations to reopen the four-mile route to Ventnor resurface from time to time.
- 2022 August 1, Katja Happe, Barbara Lambauer, Clemens Maier-Wolthausen, Western and Northern Europe June 1942–1945, Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG, →ISBN, page 465:
- The people in hiding now resurfaced in large numbers […]
- (transitive, rare) To make something reappear.
- 1991 Fall, Vigen Guroian, “Armenian genocide and Christian existence.”, in Cross Currents, volume 41, number 3, page 3322:
- Tourian's poem exhibits a central strand of the Catholic tradition which has been suppressed in Armenian religious life but needs to be resurfaced.
- (transitive) To provide a new surface, to replace or remodel the surface of something, or to restore a surface. To put a new coating or finish on a surface.
- A zamboni is a big machine that resurfaces ice at a rink so it is smooth as glass for the skaters.
- 2019 November 6, “NR £4m upgrade plan for Keighley”, in Rail, page 10:
- Both platforms are being resurfaced, and work will take place to improve stepping distances between the platforms and trains.
Translations
[edit]to come once again to the surface
to surface once again
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