emerge

verb

Synonyms and Antonyms of EMERGE

to come to one's attention especially gradually or unexpectedly <problems emerged almost as soon as the contractor began the excavation for the swimming pool>

Synonyms come up, crop (up), emerge, materialize, spring (up), surface

Related Words appear, come out, show up, turn up; chance, come, come about, fall out, go (on), go off, hap, happen, occur, pass, transpire; interfere, interpose, intervene, intrude

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