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Past tense of resurface

regular verb

The past tense of resurface is resurfaced. The past participle is also resurfaced.

Forms of resurface

Base form (V1)resurface /ɹiːˈsɜːfɪs/
Past tense (V2)resurfaced
Past participle (V3)resurfaced
Present participleresurfacing
Third person singularresurfaces

Resurfaced in a sentence

  • His body finally resurfaced after three years underwater.
  • Just as amazing, gruesome morgue photos of some of the madman's street-walker victims also resurfaced after being missing for decades.1992 October 27, “Weekly World News”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), page 37
  • Those recurrent noises in Italy about a move to Internazionale have resurfaced this week.2017 May 13, Barney Ronay, “Antonio Conte’s brilliance has turned Chelsea’s pop-up team into champions”, in The Guardian. From the entry overwhelmingly
  • When controversial KOL Sylvia Chan resurfaced in March as a life coach, the general online sentiment was, “Huh, can meh?”2024 June 10, Kimberly Lim, “What’s With Singapore’s Surge in Self-Proclaimed Life Coaches?”, in ricemedia.co, archived from the original…. From the entry can
  • Since last year, the trend has resurfaced.2022 February 22, “What is the ‘Tang Ping’ Movement Started by Young Chinese who are against Overworking?”, in Malay Mail, Petaling Jaya…. From the entry tang ping

Meaning of resurface

  1. verb To come once again to the surface.
  2. verb To surface again; to reappear or re-occur.
  3. verb To make something reappear.

Full definition of resurface

Questions about the past tense of resurface

What is the past tense of resurface?
The past tense of resurface is resurfaced.
What is the past participle of resurface?
The past participle of resurface is resurfaced.
Is resurface a regular or irregular verb?
Resurface is a regular verb: its past tense adds -d.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: resurface (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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