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RECRUDESCENT

Definitions: RECRUDESCENT

RECRUDESCENT

Adjective

1. Breaking out again after temporary abatement or supression; as, a recrudescent epidemic.

2. Growing raw, sore, or painful again.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Etymology: Recrudescent \Re`cru*des"cent\ (-sent), adjective. [Latin expression recrudescens, -entis, present participle of recrudescere to become raw again; prefix re- re- crudescere to become hard or raw: compare to the French expression recrudescent.]. (Websters 1913)



Crosswords: RECRUDESCENT

English words defined with "RECRUDESCENT": Recrudescency. (references)
Etymologies containing "RECRUDESCENT": recrudesce. (references)
Non-English Usage: "RECRUDESCENT" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses.

Romanian (recrudescent).

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: RECRUDESCENT

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

recrudescent

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: RECRUDESCENT

Language Translations for "RECRUDESCENT"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

German

  

wieder verschlimmernd. (various references)

   

Greek 

  

υποτροπιάζων (palindromic, recurrent, relapser), χειροτερεύων πάλι. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ecrudescentray

   

Romanian

  

recrudescent. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

recrudescente. (various references)

   

Ukranian 

  

відновлений (reclaimed, restored), повторний (second). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Rhyming with "RECRUDESCENT"

Words rhyming with "RECRUDESCENT" (pronounced 'Re`cru*des"cent'): Acaulescent, Accrescent, Acquiescent, Adducent, Adipescent, Adnascent, Albescent, Alkalescent, Arborescent, Candescent, Canescent, Caulescent, Cerulescent, Cinerescent, Circumjacent, Coalescent, Complacent, Conducent, Connascent, Contabescent, Decent, Dehiscent, Deliquescent, Delitescent, Depascent, Docent, Effervescent, Efflorescent, Enascent, Equicrescent, Erubescent, -escent, Evanescent, Excandescent, Excrescent, Exercent, Fervescent, Flavescent, Florescent, fluorescent, Fremescent, Frutescent, Gangrenescent, Glaucescent, Herbescent, ignescent, Inacquiescent, Incalescent, incandescent, Incanescent, Increscent, indecent, indehiscent, Ineffervescent, Interjacent, Interlucent, Intumescent, iridescent, Jacent, Juvenescent, Lactescent, Latescent, liquescent, lucent, Lutescent, Maledicent, Manuducent, Marcescent, Maturescent, Nascent, Nigrescent, Obsolescent, Opalescent, Papescent, Petrescent, Phosphorescent, Photoluminescent, Precent, Producent, Pubescent, Putrescent, Rancescent, recent, Reducent, Rejuvenescent, Relucent, renascent, Revalescent, Reviviscent, Rigescent, Rubescent, Rufescent, Self-complacent, Semitranslucent, senescent, Spinescent, Spinulescent, Spumescent, subjacent, Subnascent, Subtranslucent, suffrutescent, Sugescent, Supercrescent, superjacent, Tabescent, Toppescent, Traducent, Tralucent, translucent, tumescent, Turgescent, Undecent, Violascent, Violescent, Virescent, Viridescent, Vitrescent. (additional references)

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Anagrams: RECRUDESCENT

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "c-c-d-e-e-e-n-r-r-s-t-u"

-2 letters: decrescent, recrudesce, understeer.

-3 letters: credences, decenters, decentres, decurrent, encrusted, resecured, returnees, succedent, succeeder, tenderers.

-4 letters: censured, censurer, centered, credence, crescent, currents, curseder, decenter, decentre, decreers, dentures, deserter, enterers, erecters, neutered, recenter, reducers, reenters, reerects, renested, rescreen, resected, resecure, resented, returned, returnee, screened, screener, secerned, secreted, secreter, sederunt, sunderer, tenderer, terreens, terrenes, underset, unrested.

-5 letters: censure, centers, centred, centres, credent, crested, crudest, crusted, current, decerns, decreer, decrees, denture, descent, encrust, endures, ensured, ensurer, entered, enterer, entrees, erected, erecter, eructed, needers, neuters, recedes, recused, reducer, reduces, reenter, reerect, reested, renders, renters, rescued, rescuer, retenes, retuned, retunes, returns, scented, seceder, secrete, secured, securer, seducer, serener, sneered, sneerer, steered, steerer, sterner, succeed, teeners, tenders, tenrecs, tenured, tenures, terreen, terrene, tureens, turners, undrest, ureters.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: RECRUDESCENT


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

52 45 43 52 55 44 45 53 43 45 4E 54

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

.-.    .    -.-.    .-.    ..-    -..    .    ...    -.-.    .    -.    -

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010010 01000101 01000011 01010010 01010101 01000100 01000101 01010011 01000011 01000101 01001110 01010100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#82 &#69 &#67 &#82 &#85 &#68 &#69 &#83 &#67 &#69 &#78 &#84

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0052 0045 0043 0052 0055 0044 0045 0053 0043 0045 004E 0054

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

523937525538395337394854

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Expressions: Internet
4. Translations: Modern
5. Rhymes
6. Anagrams
7. Orthography
8. Bibliography


  

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