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REAPPEAR

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Appear again

Example:

Her husband reappeared after having left her years ago

Synonyms:

re-emerge; reappear

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Hypernyms (to "reappear" is one way to...):

appear (come into sight or view)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "reappear"):

resurface (appear again)

come back; return (be restored)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s
Somebody ----s
Something is ----ing PP
Somebody ----s PP

Derivation:

reappearance (the act of someone appearing again)

reappearance (the event of something appearing again)

Credits

 Context examples: 

Production of the antigen ceases shortly before birth, but may reappear in people who develop certain types of cancer.

(Carcinoembryonic antigen, NCI Thesaurus)

I remained in my hiding-place, and it was well that I did so, for presently the man reappeared, cycling slowly back.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It was twenty minutes, and the reds had all faded into greys before Holmes and the trainer reappeared.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

"She's ready now," said the footman, as he reappeared.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

At which direct defiance the stubborn sneer would reappear upon Professor Summerlee's face, and he would sit, shaking his sardonic head in unsympathetic silence, behind the cloud of his briar-root pipe.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

They are dark streaks that extend gradually downhill in warm seasons, then fade away in winter and reappear the next year.

(Recurring Martian Streaks: Flowing Sand, Not Water?, NASA)

While Fanny's mind was engaged in these sort of hopes, her uncle was, soon after tea, called out of the room; an occurrence too common to strike her, and she thought nothing of it till the butler reappeared ten minutes afterwards, and advancing decidedly towards herself, said, Sir Thomas wishes to speak with you, ma'am, in his own room.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

Former provocations reappeared.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

In a very few minutes she reappeared, having scarcely allowed the two others time enough to get through a few short sentences in her praise, after Thorpe had procured Mrs. Allen's admiration of his gig; and then receiving her friend's parting good wishes, they both hurried downstairs.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

There was not the smallest appearance of solicitude or remark about them in the Mansion-house; but it was different at the Cottage: the young couple there were more disposed to speculate and wonder; and Captain Wentworth had not been above four or five times in the Miss Musgroves' company, and Charles Hayter had but just reappeared, when Anne had to listen to the opinions of her brother and sister, as to which was the one liked best.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)