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Recuperate

verb

(past & past part. recuperated; pres. part. recuperating)

Regain or make up for. Synonyms: recoup, recover.

Regain a former condition after a financial loss. Synonyms: go back, recover. "The company managed to recuperate"

Restore to good health or strength.

Get over an illness or shock. Synonyms: convalesce, recover. Antonym: deteriorate.

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"Recuperate" Quotes from Famous Books

... be devoted to our purpose and ideals. Atween times we must rest, relax and recuperate the waste ...

— Evening Round Up - More Good Stuff Like Pep • William Crosbie Hunter

... interests of the States, and were thoroughly distrustful of the motives which had prompted the archdukes and the Spanish government to make these advances. Oldenbarneveldt on the other hand thought that peace was necessary for the land to recuperate after the exhausting struggle, which had already lasted for forty years; and he found strong support among the burgher-regents and that large part of the people who were over-burdened and impoverished by the weight of taxation, and sick and weary of perpetual warfare. There were, however, ...

— History of Holland • George Edmundson

... that they might return to consciousness and suffer; for nothing cheated the spectators worse than to have the victim die during the early stages of the torture. The object was to keep the wretch alive as long as possible. Thus in this life we have moments of comparative ease and rest, wherein we recuperate a little, just as the cat lets the mouse recover strength enough to imagine he is going ...

— Robert Browning: How To Know Him • William Lyon Phelps

... the General would invariably suggest that, His Excellency being no doubt fatigued, it would be wise to recuperate for a few minutes at the Drug Emporium of Mr. Appleby R. Fentress (an elegant gentleman, sir—one of the Chatham County Fentresses—so many of our best-blooded families have had to go into ...

— Roads of Destiny • O. Henry

... Norcross. I'm just getting over a severe illness, and I'm up here to lay around and fish and recuperate—if ...

— The Forester's Daughter - A Romance of the Bear-Tooth Range • Hamlin Garland

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