Recuperate
verb ·Moderate ·College level
Definitions
- 1 To recover, especially from an illness; to get better from an illness or from exhaustion (or sometimes from a financial loss, etc). intransitive
- 2 get over an illness or shock wordnet
- 3 To restore (someone or something) to health, strength, or currency; to revive or rehabilitate. transitive
"[...] of each province in 1842 and 1894 - that is, before the Taiping rebellion, and since China has recuperated her forces."
- 4 restore to good health or strength wordnet
- 5 To recover; to regain. transitive
"In LS, July emerges as a survivor and a storyteller with a traumatic past who has recuperated her relationship with her lost son. Her questioning and humorously subversive discourse gives emotional and textual depth to […]"
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- 6 regain a former condition after a financial loss wordnet
- 7 To co-opt (a problematic or suspect idea) so that it becomes part of an accepted discourse; to reclaim.
"Mannheim's purpose when elaborating his typology of ideology was, as we have seen above, to recuperate the concept of ideology for scientific politics, after having discarded elements of Manichean egocentricity."
- 8 regain or make up for wordnet
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More examples"Sami has to stay in bed if he wants to recuperate."
Etymology
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.
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