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Recover   /rɪkˈəvər/   Listen
Recover

verb
(past & past part. recovered; pres. part. recovering)
1.
Get or find back; recover the use of.  Synonyms: find, regain, retrieve.  "She found her voice and replied quickly"
2.
Get over an illness or shock.  Synonyms: convalesce, recuperate.
3.
Regain a former condition after a financial loss.  Synonyms: go back, recuperate.  "The company managed to recuperate"
4.
Regain or make up for.  Synonyms: recoup, recuperate.
5.
Reuse (materials from waste products).  Synonym: reclaim.
6.
Cover anew.



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"Recover" Quotes from Famous Books



... can take your infant terrors and load them on the first train away from here. But the revolvers are confiscated, Wild Charlie, and they'll stay here. You can try to recover the revolvers by a civil suit, if you want to risk it in court. Otherwise, make your get-away as fast as you can. I'll admit that your outfit had the josh on me, and had me tickling the wire for the reserves. But just now the town holds ...
— Dick Prescott's Third Year at West Point - Standing Firm for Flag and Honor • H. Irving Hancock

... consequently it is best to exclude as much daylight as possible and keep the room in a sort of twilight until the child begins to improve. Be careful to avoid any odor coming from a burning lamp in the night. When the child begins to recover, give it plenty of sunlight. After the child begins to get better let in all the sunlight the windows will admit. Take a south room for the ...
— Searchlights on Health - The Science of Eugenics • B. G. Jefferis and J. L. Nichols

... wait for him to recover his self-possession: he hurried after Lady Westborough, who, with her daughter, ...
— The Disowned, Complete • Edward Bulwer-Lytton

... twice to-day," said the Little Colonel, taking a deep breath as she began to recover from her fright. "Jonesy ought to ...
— Two Little Knights of Kentucky • Annie Fellows Johnston

... angry; then fear and utter dejection had followed one another. But in precise proportion as the charges had accumulated, and the evidence had become overwhelming, he had, so far from becoming demoralized, seemed to recover ...
— Within an Inch of His Life • Emile Gaboriau


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