resurfaces

Emerges again visibly

Resurfaces means to come back into view or awareness after a period of absence.

Old rumors resurface during campaigns.

A missing person resurfaces years later.

The word also has a literal sense: to put a new surface on something.

Workers resurface roads, and a submarine resurfaces after diving.

Memories resurfaced when she visited her childhood home.

reappears

reemerges

Appears again after absence

rematerializes · comes back · recurs · reoccurs · rediscovered · shows up · manifests · reawakens · reasserts · rebounds

memory

recalls

Remembers or withdraws products

triggers · evokes · stirs · awakens · dredges up · unearths · retrieves · flashes back · haunts · lingers

sports

repaves

Applies new road surface

  • courtTrial venue or sports surface
  • rinkEnclosed skating surface
  • trackPath or monitored route

pitch · asphalt · turf · velodrome · bowling alley · skatepark · ice · synthetic · clay · hardcourt

renovates

refinishes

Applies new surface coating

replaster · retile · repave · restores · smooths · buffs · veneers · laminates · seals · strips

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visibility/appearance

resurfacesdisappears

Ceases to exist visibly

vanishes · hides · fades away · withdraws · goes dark

SUBMERSION (physical)

resurfacessubmerges

Puts fully underwater

sinks · dives · goes under · submerses · descends

persistence/continuity

resurfacesdies out

Completely disappears over time

lapses · expires

Phrases
Family

resurface, resurfaced, resurfacing, resurfacer, resurfacers

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Known to kids · Used worldwide · Timeless · Everyday, not technical · Rated G