Definition of "resurface"

resurface

/ɹiːˈsɜː(ɹ)fɪs/

verb
third-person singular simple present resurfaces, present participle resurfacing, simple past and past participle resurfaced
1. (intransitive) To come once again to the surface.
2. (intransitive) To surface again; to reappear or re-occur.
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  Just as amazing, gruesome morgue photos of some of the madman's street-walker victims also resurfaced after being missing for decades.
  1992 October 27, “Weekly World News”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), page 37
  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.
  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
  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 November 16, Paul Stephen, “Stations earn a deserved NRA ovation: Small: Shanklin”, in RAIL, number 970, page 49
  The people in hiding now resurfaced in large numbers […]
  2022 August 1, Katja Happe, Barbara Lambauer, Clemens Maier-Wolthausen, Western and Northern Europe June 1942–1945, Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG, page 465
3. (transitive, rare) To make something reappear.
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  Tourian's poem exhibits a central strand of the Catholic tradition which has been suppressed in Armenian religious life but needs to be resurfaced.
  1991 Fall, Vigen Guroian, “Armenian genocide and Christian existence.”, in Cross Currents, volume 41, number 3, page 3322
4. (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.
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  Both platforms are being resurfaced, and work will take place to improve stepping distances between the platforms and trains.
  2019 November 6, “NR £4m upgrade plan for Keighley”, in Rail, page 10

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resurface

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