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RECOVER

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 I. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Get over an illness or shock

Example:

The patient is recuperating

Synonyms:

convalesce; recover; recuperate

Classified under:

Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care

Hypernyms (to "recover" is one way to...):

ameliorate; better; improve; meliorate (get better)

Verb group:

recuperate (restore to good health or strength)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "recover"):

gain vigor; percolate; perk; perk up; pick up (gain or regain energy)

snap back (recover quickly)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s

Derivation:

recovery (gradual healing (through rest) after sickness or injury)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Regain a former condition after a financial loss

Example:

The company managed to recuperate

Synonyms:

go back; recover; recuperate

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Hypernyms (to "recover" is one way to...):

regress; retrovert; return; revert; turn back (go back to a previous state)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "recover"):

rally; rebound (return to a former condition)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s
Somebody ----s
Something is ----ing PP

Derivation:

recovery (return to an original state)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Cover anew

Example:

recover a chair

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Hypernyms (to "recover" is one way to...):

cover (provide with a covering or cause to be covered)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Sense 4

Meaning:

Reuse (materials from waste products)

Synonyms:

reclaim; recover

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

Hypernyms (to "recover" is one way to...):

recycle; reprocess; reuse (use again after processing)

"Recover" entails doing...:

preserve; save (to keep up and reserve for personal or special use)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Sense 5

Meaning:

Get or find back; recover the use of

Example:

She found her voice and replied quickly

Synonyms:

find; recover; regain; retrieve

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

Hypernyms (to "recover" is one way to...):

acquire; get (come into the possession of something concrete or abstract)

Verb group:

find; regain (come upon after searching; find the location of something that was missed or lost)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "recover"):

access (obtain or retrieve from a storage device; as of information on a computer)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s something from somebody

Derivation:

recoverer (someone who saves something from danger or violence)

recovery (the act of regaining or saving something lost (or in danger of becoming lost))

Sense 6

Meaning:

Regain or make up for

Example:

recuperate one's losses

Synonyms:

recoup; recover; recuperate

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

Hypernyms (to "recover" is one way to...):

acquire; get (come into the possession of something concrete or abstract)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "recover"):

catch up with; make up (make up work that was missed due to absence at a later point)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Credits

 Context examples: 

She had, when she recovered, thrown open the window to let the morning air in, and had run down to the lane, whence she sent a farm-lad for the doctor.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

My own disappointment and loss in her is very great; but, as for poor James, I suppose he will hardly ever recover it.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

He turned away to recover himself, and when he spoke again, though his voice still faltered, his manner shewed the wish of self-command, and the resolution of avoiding any farther allusion.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

The cumulative amount recovered from the specimen type over the interval from T1 to T2.

(Amount Recovered from T1 to T2, NCI Thesaurus)

The cumulative amount of substance recovered from a specimen.

(Amount Recovered, NCI Thesaurus)

My wife and my sister will never recover from their horror.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

The instant his feet touched the ground he seemed to recover his courage, and rushed at his natural enemies.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

So much I saw, almost in a dream, for I had not yet recovered from my horrid fear of a minute or two before.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

You think, sir, that unless this document is recovered there will be war?

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He almost fell backward, and swayed from side to side in an effort to recover his balance.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)