recover
/ɹɪˈkʌvə/
To restore to good health, consciousness, life etc; To get back, to regain (a physical thing; in astronomy and navigation, sight of a thing or a signal); To salvage, to extricate, to rescue
- he/she/it
- recovers
- past
- recovered
- past participle
- recovered
Meanings
- 1
To restore to good health, consciousness, life etc
Tom still hasn't completely recovered.
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He has no chance of recovering.
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- 2
To get back, to regain (a physical thing; in astronomy and navigation, sight of a thing or a signal)
- 3
To salvage, to extricate, to rescue (a thing or person)
- 4
To replenish to, resume (a good state of mind or body)
- 5
To gain as compensation or reparation, usually by formal legal process
- 6
To get better, to regain health or prosperity
- 7
To recover from
- 8
To obtain a positive judgement; to win in a lawsuitrare
- 9
To reach (a place), arrive atrare
- 10
To make good by reparation; to make up for; to retrieve; to repair the loss or injury ofrare