Wiktionary
vb. 1 To be revived after dying 2 To return after being presumed dead 3 (context chiefly sports English) To experience a resurgence after one's productive years were assumed to have ended
Usage examples of "come back from the dead".
You may break the White Tower and grind the Aes Sedai to dust, for even their powers cannot stop heroes come back from the dead.
We've done our best to promote people who had bones to pick with the old order, of course, and most of those officers won't feel any great nostalgia for the Legislaturalists even if Parnell has come back from the dead.
That it was, in fact, almost as though Bill Bradbury had come back from the dead to confront his ill-tempered replacement.
I think she didn't like to come too close to me, possibly because she was superstitious: with part of her mind she saw me as someone who'd come back from the dead.