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RECUPERATE

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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 "recuperate" 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 "recuperate"):

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

snap back (recover quickly)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s

Antonym:

deteriorate (grow worse)

Derivation:

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

recuperative (promoting recuperation)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Restore to good health or strength

Classified under:

Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care

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

bring around; cure; heal (provide a cure for, make healthy again)

Verb group:

convalesce; recover; recuperate (get over an illness or shock)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody

Derivation:

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

recuperative (promoting recuperation)

Sense 3

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 "recuperate" 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 "recuperate"):

rally; rebound (return to a former condition)

Sentence frames:

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

Sense 4

Meaning:

Regain or make up for

Example:

recuperate one's losses

Synonyms:

recoup; recover; recuperate

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

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

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

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

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

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

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