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  • n  a return of something after a period of abatement
    a recrudescence of racism
    a recrudescence of the symptoms

  • The president's dream of a peaceful country has been shattered by a recrudescence of fighting in many parts of the country.
  • The current recrudescence of interest in psychic and spiritualistic phenomena is partly due to Hollywood movies.
  • One newspaper also blamed the country's 1936 ban on licensed bordellos for "the recrudescence of shameful attacks on women.

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