Meaning & use
Resurfaced
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Came back to the surface or to public attention again, or had a new outer layer applied.
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Old photographs of the scandal resurfaced online years later.
The city resurfaced the pothole-ridden highway over the summer.
A note on using this word
The word works equally well for a literal new road surface and a figurative reappearance of a memory, rumor, or issue.
Words with a similar meaning
reappearedreemerged
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Words with an opposite meaning
submergedvanished
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