Definition of "resurface" []

• To cover with a new surface: resurfacing a road; resurfaced the floor. (verb-transitive)
• To come to the surface again; reappear: The rumor has resurfaced. (verb-intransitive)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "That is until next week, when Freddie Mercury will resurface from the dead to star in a very special episode of “Spongebob Glitterpants and the Bikini Bottomed Girls.”"
• "It’s a bit disconcerting when forgotten relics of your distant past unexpectedly resurface from the bottom of dusty drawers – stuff you’d forgotten, which abruptly reconnects you with the child you once were."
• "We have seen the dilemma resurface last week after Market News International cited an official on conditions of anonymity that Greece was intending to amend the bailout to bypass the IMF, which was then denied by Greece."