resurfacing

Verb

resurface (third-person singular simple present resurfaces, present participle resurfacing, simple past and past participle resurfaced)

1. (intransitive) To come once again to the surface.
   • His body finally resurfaced after three years underwater.
2. (intransitive) To surface again; to reappear or re-occur.
   • 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
3. (rare, transitive) To make something reappear.
   • Tourian's poem exhibits a central strand of the Catholic tradition which has been suppressed in Armenian religious life but needs to be resurfaced.1991 Fall, Vigen Guroian, “Armenian genocide and Christian existence.”, in Cross Currents, volume 41, number 3, page 3322
4. (transitive) To provide a new surface, to replace or remodel the surface of something, or to restore a surface. To put a new coating or finish on a surface.
   • A zamboni is a big machine that resurfaces ice at a rink so it is smooth as glass for the skaters.