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verb
To recover, especially from an illness; to get better from an illness or from exhaustion (or sometimes from a financial loss, etc).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: intransitive
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Antonyms: none provided
verb
To restore (someone or something) to health, strength, or currency; to revive or rehabilitate.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
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verb
To recover; to regain.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
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verb
To co-opt (a problematic or suspect idea) so that it becomes part of an accepted discourse; to reclaim.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: human-sciences, sciences, social-science, sociology
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verb
get over an illness or shock
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: recover, convalesce
Antonyms: deteriorate
Broader terms: better, improve, ameliorate, meliorate
Narrower terms: perk up, perk, percolate, pick up, gain vigor, snap back
verb
restore to good health or strength
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: bring around, cure, heal
verb
regain a former condition after a financial loss
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: recover, go back
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: revert, return, retrovert, regress, turn back
Narrower terms: rally, rebound
verb
regain or make up for
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: recover, recoup
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: get, acquire
Narrower terms: make up, catch up with
History
Borrowed from Latin recuperāre, alternative form of reciperāre (“get again, regain, recover”). Doublet of recover. The pronunciation without /j/ may have been influenced by the semantically similar, but etymologically distinct verb recoup.
Across languages
9 source translations are retained for this English entry.
