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Verb

resurface ‎(third-person singular simple present resurfaces, present participle resurfacing, simple past and past participle resurfaced)

1. (intransitive) To come once again to the surface

   His body finally resurfaced after three years underwater.‎

2. (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.

   A zamboni is a big machine that resurfaces ice at a rink so it is smooth as glass for the skaters.‎

3. (intransitive) To arise or become evident again. To re-occur or reappear.
4. (transitive, rare) To make something reappear.
   • 1991 Fall, Vigen Guroian, “Armenian genocide and Christian existence.”, in Cross Currents, volume 41, number 3, page 3322:

     Tourian's poem exhibits a central strand of the Catholic tradition which has been suppressed in Armenian religious life but needs to be resurfaced.

5. (of a person) To come out of hiding or obscurity.

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