Reemerges

Part of speech: verb

Definitions

1. Appears or becomes visible again after being hidden or absent
2. Shows up once more after a period of disappearance or inactivity
3. Returns to sight or awareness following a lapse or concealment

Etymology: "Reemerges" is simply the third-person singular present form of "reemerge," so its story is really the story of the verb. That verb is a plain combination of "re-," meaning "again," and "emerge," which comes from Latin "emergere," literally "to rise out of" or "to come up from beneath," built from "e-" or "ex-," meaning "out," and "mergere," meaning "to dip" or "to plunge." The emerging part of the picture is literal: something rising up out of water or some other covering. The "re-" prefix comes from Latin "re-," and it reached English through Old French. Put together, "reemerge" means to come out again after having gone under, hidden, or submerged, which is why the verb reads so vividly even though it is a modern construction. Its sense has stayed close to that original image of something surfacing once more.

Synonyms: reappears, returns

Antonyms: vanishes, disappears