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Recuperate
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- 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
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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