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Definition of recover :
1. Recovery.
2. To cover again.
3. 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.
4. To gain by motion or effort; to obtain; to reach; to come to.
5. To get or obtain again; to get renewed possession of; to win back; to regain.
6. To make good by reparation; to make up for; to retrieve; to repair the loss or injury of; as, to recover lost time.
7. To make one's way; to come; to arrive.
8. To obtain a judgement; to succeed in a lawsuit; as, the plaintiff has recovered in his suit.
9. To overcome; to get the better of, - as a state of mind or body.
10. 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.
11. To rescue; to deliver.
12. To restore from sickness, faintness, or the like; to bring back to life or health; to cure; to heal.
Synonyms:
recollect, improve, find out, bump, date from, shake, think, rule, reimburse, get over, remember, grow, sharpen, get through, convalesce, reanimate, observe, obtain, come back, profit, heal, domesticize, retrieve, recruit, redeem, relapse, come a long way, regenerate, come up, get back, perk up, detect, wrap, recoverable, better, ease off, help, make up for, notice, smother, monetize, reclaim, domesticate, revive, find oneself, deduct, claim back, be restored, fight off, lose, survive, appropriate, encounter, win back, recur, reacquire, regain, pull round, salvage, recapture, determine, produce, look up, incur, gain, jump, come to, mend, get, die, rescue, collect, witness, line up, receive, fail, earn, be cured _or_ healed, date back, repossess, strengthen, bounce, catch up, chance, respond, health, cure, reestablish, find, realize, snap back, happen, rebound, nurse, coat, reform, feel, cash in, resume, bury, domesticise, recall, blanket, seize, go back, snap out of it, insulate, pick up, top, discover, come around, tame, call back, get hold, retake, rectify, see, increase, withhold, ascertain, reach, pull through, crown, overcome, call up, re-collect, cover, change for the better/worse
refresh (part of speech: verb)
enliven, renew, rally, restore, stimulate, divert, exhilarate, refresh, rejuvenate, resuscitate, recuperate, recharge, reinvigorate, freshen, invigorate, recoup
Usage examples:
- Yes, very ill indeed; I don't think she can recover. - "Tom Brown at Oxford", Thomas Hughes.
- I had for the time being lost all power of control over him, and before I might hope to recover it he would be out of my reach. - "Slippy McGee, Sometimes Known as the Butterfly Man", Marie Conway Oemler.
- His will was already beginning to recover for a fresh attempt. - "The Dark Flower", John Galsworthy.