RECOVER


Meaning of RECOVER in English

I. rə̇ˈkəvə(r), rēˈ- verb

( recovered ; recovered ; recovering -v(ə)riŋ ; recovers )

Etymology: Middle English recoveren, from Middle French recoverer, from Latin recuperare; akin to Latin recipere to take back, receive — more at receive

transitive verb

1. : to get or win back

sat down to recover his breath

died without recovering consciousness

answered as soon as he could recover his voice

recover the pioneering spirit of their ancestors

2. archaic : to get well from (as an injury, a sickness)

3.

a. : to bring (oneself) back to normal balance or self-possession

stumbled and recovered himself

b. archaic : rescue , deliver

that they may recover themselves out of the snare of the devil — 2 Tim 2:26 (Authorized Version)

4.

a. : to make good the loss, injury, or cost of : make up for

recover increased costs through higher prices

hoped to recover his gambling losses with a big coup

b. : to gain by legal process

recover damages and costs in a libel suit

recover title to a disputed property

recover judgment against a defendant

5. archaic : to gain by motion or effort : reach

6. archaic : restore , cure , heal

from death to life thou might'st him yet recover — Michael Drayton

she hath recovered the king and undone me — Shakespeare

7. : to find again

recover a lost scent

recover the trail of a fugitive

8.

a. : to obtain from an ore, a waste product, or a by-product

recover gold from ore with cyanide

b. : to save from loss and restore to usefulness : reclaim

recover land from the sea

c. : to bring out or bring to light after neglect, burial, obscurity

recover the lost secrets of ancient glassblowers

recover the key of a cryptographic message

recover petroleum from deep deposits

intransitive verb

1.

a. : to regain health after sickness : become well

recovering from a bout of pneumonia

patients on the southern side of a hospital recover faster than those on the northern side — Herbert Spencer

b. : to regain a formal or normal state (as of vigor, self-control, consciousness)

when she had recovered from the first shock of the news

the cotton industry was recovering after a slump during the war

2. : to regain a position of guard or readiness

recover after a lunge in fencing

recover for the next rowing stroke

3. : to obtain a final judgment in one's favor : to succeed in a lawsuit or proceeding

4. obsolete : to make one's way back : return

Synonyms:

recover , regain , retrieve , recoup , and recruit can mean to get back what has been let go or lost. recover , the most comprehensive, can apply to anything lost and got back in any way

recover a lost wallet

recover one's sanity

recover one's balance

recover one's position in a firm

regain , often interchangeable with recover , implies more strongly a winning back

regain one's health

regain one's liberty after a long imprisonment

regain one's rights as a citizen

regain popularity

retrieve implies a recovering or regaining after some effort

retrieve a lost fortune

retrieve one's position lost through ill fortune

although the verb can have as its object such a word as loss, error, failure, or disaster, with which it then implies a reparation or a setting right

retrieve an error in addition

retrieve a bad financial disaster by careful investment

recoup , a legal term implying a fair deduction as of part of a claim of a successful plaintiff in a law suit, in common use implies recovery or retrieval, usually in equivalent rather than identical form, of something lost

recoup gambling losses by more careful play

recoup by some good hard work the money lost in bad investments

recruit in this context can imply a regaining, by fresh additions or a replenishment of the supply, of what has been lost

recruit a new battalion for the foot army

the present difficulty of recruiting staff in the accountancy profession — Accountancy

I fed and watered my horse and recruited my own energies with roast beef — W.H.Hudson †1922

In extension it has come to apply to any acquiring as of members or a supply

a fair-sized audience can be recruited — Sidney Kaufman

hundreds of thousands of Americans who had never worked before … were recruited for war production — Dorothy Jones

recruit a staff for a new restaurant

II. noun

( -s )

Etymology: Middle English recovere, from Middle French recovre, from recoverer to recover

: recovery 3

Webster's New International English Dictionary.      Новый международный словарь английского языка Webster.