resurfaced

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past simple and past participle of

to put a new surface on a road:

Drivers will experience delays while stretches of the road are being resurfaced.

to rise to the surface of the water again:

When the divers did not resurface after an hour, three crew members dived down to look for them.

to appear again after being lost, stolen, or absent:

Please contact me if any of the stolen paintings resurface.

Jill resurfaced last week, after spending the past few months doing research in the library.

If a memory resurfaces, you remember it again after you had forgotten about it:

Memories of his childhood resurfaced when he saw the photographs.