Resurging

Part of speech: verb

Definitions

1. Returning to strength or prominence after a period of decline or absence
2. Experiencing a revival or comeback after a decline in importance or influence
3. Reemerging in significance or popularity following a lack of presence or activity

Etymology: Latin "resurgere" was built from "re-" meaning "again" and "surgere," "to rise," so the verb began as a plain picture of getting up once more. English borrowed the root directly from Latin "resurgō," meaning "rise again," and the sense of a return to strength grew naturally from that image of standing back up. The Latin verb itself is a compound of "surgō," which is itself a fusion of "sub" ("up from under") and "regō" ("to make straight"), so the older image is of lifting something out from beneath and straightening it. That sense of rising from a lower position is what the English verb keeps when it describes a tide, a movement, or a feeling coming back with force. Because the English verb arrived from Latin rather than through French, it stayed closer to its classical shape than many everyday words do. Its participle "resurging" simply describes the action in progress: something that is rising again, gaining strength as it does.

Synonyms: reviving, re-emerging, reappearing

Antonyms: diminishing, declining, fading