recover

[Re*covĀ·er]

To recover something is to get it back. After you lose your watch, you might recover it from the wastebasket.

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To cover again.

Verb
get over an illness or shock; "The patient is recuperating"

Verb
regain a former condition after a financial loss; "We expect the stocks to recover to $2.90"; "The company managed to recuperate"

Verb
cover anew; "recover a chair"

Verb
of materials from waste products

Verb
get or find back; recover the use of; "She regained control of herself"; "She found her voice and replied quickly"

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Verb
regain or make up for; "recuperate one''s losses"


v. t.
To cover again.

v. t.
To get or obtain again; to get renewed possession of; to win back; to regain.

v. t.
To make good by reparation; to make up for; to retrieve; to repair the loss or injury of; as, to recover lost time.

v. t.
To restore from sickness, faintness, or the like; to bring back to life or health; to cure; to heal.

v. t.
To overcome; to get the better of, -- as a state of mind or body.

v. t.
To rescue; to deliver.

v. t.
To gain by motion or effort; to obtain; to reach; to come to.

v. t.
To gain as a compensation; to obtain in return for injury or debt; as, to recover damages in trespass; to recover debt and costs in a suit at law; to obtain title to by judgement in a court of law; as, to recover lands in ejectment or common recovery; to gain by legal process; as, to recover judgement against a defendant.

v. i.
To regain health after sickness; to grow well; to be restored or cured; hence, to regain a former state or condition after misfortune, alarm, etc.; -- often followed by of or from; as, to recover from a state of poverty; to recover from fright.

v. i.
To make one's way; to come; to arrive.

v. i.
To obtain a judgement; to succeed in a lawsuit; as, the plaintiff has recovered in his suit.

n.
Recovery.


Recover

Re*cov"er (r?*k?v"?r), v. t. [Pref. re- + cover: cf. F. recouvrir.] To cover again. Sir W. Scott.

Recover

Re*cov"er (r?*k?v"?r), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Recovered (-?rd); p. pr. & vb. n. Recovering. ] [OE. recoveren, OF. recovrer, F. recouvrer, from L. recuperare; pref. re- re + a word of unknown origin. Cf.Recuperate.] 1. To get or obtain again; to get renewed possession of; to win back; to regain.
David recovered all that the Amalekites had carried away.
2. To make good by reparation; to make up for; to retrieve; to repair the loss or injury of; as, to recover lost time. "Loss of catel may recovered be." Chaucer.
Even good men have many failings and lapses to lament and recover.
3. To restore from sickness, faintness, or the like; to bring back to life or health; to cure; to heal.
The wine in my bottle will recover him.
4. To overcome; to get the better of, -- as a state of mind or body.
I do hope to recover my late hurt.
When I had recovered a little my first surprise.
5. To rescue; to deliver.
That they may recover themselves out of the snare of the devil, who are taken captive by him.
6. To gain by motion or effort; to obtain; to reach; to come to. [Archaic]
The forest is not three leagues off; If we recover that, we're sure enough.
Except he could recover one of the Cities of Refuge he was to die.
7. (Law) To gain as a compensation; to obtain in return for injury or debt; as, to recover damages in trespass; to recover debt and costs in a suit at law; to obtain title to by judgement in a court of law; as, to recover lands in ejectment or common recovery; to gain by legal process; as, to recover judgement against a defendant. Recover arms (Mil. Drill), a command whereby the piece is brought from the position of "aim" to that of "ready." Syn. -- To regain; repossess; resume; retrieve; recruit; heal; cure.

Recover

Re*cov"er (r?*k?v"?r), v. i. 1. To regain health after sickness; to grow well; to be restored or cured; hence, to regain a former state or condition after misfortune, alarm, etc.; -- often followed by of or from; as, to recover from a state of poverty; to recover from fright.
Go, inquire of Baal-zebub, the god of Ekron, whether I shall recover of this disease.
2. To make one's way; to come; to arrive. [Obs.]
With much ado the Christians recovered to Antioch.
3. (Law) To obtain a judgement; to succeed in a lawsuit; as, the plaintiff has recovered in his suit.

Recover

Re*cov"er, n. Recovery. Sir T. Malory.

To cover again.

To get or obtain again; to get renewed possession of; to win back; to regain.

To regain health after sickness; to grow well; to be restored or cured; hence, to regain a former state or condition after misfortune, alarm, etc.; -- often followed by of or from; as, to recover from a state of poverty; to recover from fright.

Recovery.

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Usage Examples

Part of the beauty of Judaism, and surely this is so for other faiths also, is that it gently restores control over time. Three times a day we stop what we are doing and turn to God in prayer. We recover perspective. We inhale a deep breath of eternity.

I think change is possible, but only for individuals who were never truly gay in the first place and who have a strong personal motivation to recover their heterosexuality.

One of the advantages of moving quickly is if you do something wrong you can change it. What technologies tend to do is they tend to make a lot of mistakes... but then we go back and aggressively attack those mistakes - and fix them. And you usually recover pretty quickly.

In short, we need to recover the courage we celebrate in our heroes, and in particular, the courage to tolerate, for the sake of a free society, a level of risk we hardly ever imagined in the past.

It takes most men five years to recover from a college education, and to learn that poetry is as vital to thinking as knowledge.

Failure is a great teacher, and I think when you make mistakes and you recover from them and you treat them as valuable learning experiences, then you've got something to share.

Mistakes are part of the game. It's how well you recover from them, that's the mark of a great player.

Misspelled Form

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Other Usage Examples

How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.

I had my moments when I got very frightened that I would not recover.

My father was a small-town banker. He became very ill when I was 10 years old, and we went to California three years later in an attempt to recover his health, which never happened.

In history as in human life, regret does not bring back a lost moment and a thousand years will not recover something lost in a single hour.

It is by going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures of life. Where you stumble, there lies your treasure.

Stabilizing the euro is one thing, healing the culture that surrounds it is another. A world in which material values are everything and spiritual values nothing is neither a stable state nor a good society. The time has come for us to recover the Judeo-Christian ethic of human dignity in the image of God.

Citizens, the priority now is to recover trust between the Egyptian - amongst the Egyptians and to have trust and confidence in our economy and international reputation and the fact that the change that we have embarked on will carry on and there's no going back to the old days.

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