resurface

His body finally resurfaced after three years underwater.

A zamboni is a big machine that resurfaces ice at a rink so it is smooth as glass for the skaters.

Subplots that might have been fun to explore were relegated or eventually sidelined altogether in the case of characters like Gendry, who disappeared for years and finally resurfaces as a blacksmith in King’s Landing, literally waiting for the call to his hero’s journey.

Tourian's poem exhibits a central strand of the Catholic tradition which has been suppressed in Armenian religious life but needs to be resurfaced.