resurface
English
Etymology
Verb
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- (intransitive) To come once again to the surface
- His body finally resurfaced after three years underwater.
- (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.
- (intransitive) To arise or become evident again. To re-occur or reappear.
- 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.
- (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.
- (of a person) To come out of hiding or obscurity.
Translations
to come once again to the surface
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to surface once again
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