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reappear

verbB2+Occasional — familiar, but not everyday · #11,745 of 15,258neutral

Other forms: reappeared, reappears, reappearing

To reappear is to come into sight again. Gone for a while, and now back.

The word assumes an absence, which is why it is so useful in narrative: a character reappears, the sun reappears from behind a cloud, an old problem reappears. It works for people and for symptoms equally, and a doctor will ask whether a rash has reappeared. The noun is reappearance, which usually comes with a preposition and a time. The plain opposite is disappear, and both are built on appear.

Definitions of reappear

  1. 1verbreappearTo become visible or present again.B2+

    “He reappeared an hour later with the tools.”

Where it comes from

  1. Proto-Indo-European

    *peh₂-

  2. Proto-Indo-European

    *peh₂s- — watch, see

  3. Latin

    appāreō — to appear

  4. Old French

    aparoir

  5. Middle English

    apperen

  6. English

    appear

  7. English, today

    reappear

Built from

  • ad · Latin — to
  • pāreō · Latin — to come forth, to become visible
  • *peh₂- · Proto-Indo-European — protect

From re- + appear. appear comes from Middle English apperen, aperen, borrowed from Old French aparoir (French apparoir), from Latin appāreō (“to appear”), from ad (“to”) + pāreō (“to come forth, to become visible”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European peh₂s- (“watch, see”), s-present of peh₂- (“protect”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practised in A Man Called Ove, Word Building

First appears in chapter 11 of A Man Called Ove.

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reappear in the wild

  • When a player character respawns, they usually reappear at an earlier point of the level and may incur a penalty, such as a loss of resources or score.

    Spawning (video games)

  • The amount of discharge may increase due to vaginal infection, and it may disappear and reappear from time to time.

    Leukorrhea

  • A negative connotation is associated with the word, as it implies that a family's child may disappear and reappear at will.

    Emere

  • The demons comply, and reappear as Five Roads of Gods in Chapter 37.

    Five Colored-Face Devils

  • After this season, dirt courses did not reappear in the USAC Championship until 1981-82.

    1970 USAC Championship Car season

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From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. These sentences were written by other people about their own subjects; they are here to show the word at work, not as anybody’s opinion.

Related words

the pāreō family

appear

reappear — used about once every 10,067 pages · #11,745 · point at the bar for the others

  • disappear
  • appearance
  • disappearance