Definition of "recrudescent" [re•cru•des•cent]

• Breaking out again or reemerging after temporary abatement or suppression (adjective)
• Growing raw, sore, or painful again (adjective)

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• "Less a musical extravaganza than a pre-emptive wake, the summer "classic rock" festival is clouded by the shadow of the Grim Reaper, marking the triumph of the recrudescent, the cataleptic and James Taylor."
• "Before he knew it, with a recrudescent guilty pang, he had tossed the half-smoked cigar away and slackened his pace until his feet dragged in the old lifeless, East Falls manner."
• "Because of a recrudescent nativism, we send home thousands upon thousands of foreign students who have gotten masters and doctoral degrees in the hard sciences at American universities."