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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

... a striking commentary on extreme vegetarian claims. The blood they obtain by shooting a very sharp-pointed arrow into the neck vein of the cow. After the requisite amount has been drained, the wound is closed and the animal turned into the herd to recuperate. The blood and milk are then shaken together in long gourds. Certainly the race seems to thrive on this strange diet. Only rarely, on ceremonial occasions or when transportation is difficult, do they eat mutton or goat ...

— African Camp Fires • Stewart Edward White

... learn that neither obliv- [15] ion nor dreams can recuperate the life of man, whose Life is God, for God neither slumbers nor sleeps. The loss of gustatory enjoyment and the ills of indigestion tend to rebuke appetite and destroy the peace of a false sense. False pleasure will be, ...

— Miscellaneous Writings, 1883-1896 • Mary Baker Eddy

... subsided, and the outfit stumbled upon the road to their destination. They found water before noon, and camped there to recuperate. Here also, when they took their leave, they left word of their appropriation of the baby girl. Later, when they had reached their camp site and settled down, Modock, having received no communication relative to the child, returned ...

— The She Boss - A Western Story • Arthur Preston Hankins

... "James Polder is staying at Shadrach. He was asked here because his health was threatening. He had two weeks leave; and, although I wasn't really anxious, I said he might recuperate with me." ...

— The Three Black Pennys - A Novel • Joseph Hergesheimer

... apt to count, for like each one of the other Riverport contestants Fred had been told all sorts of amazing stories about the ability of the Mechanicsburg "Wonder" to recuperate, and come in at the end of a long race apparently fresh. That had been one of the reasons for his brush with Ackers; he had tried to run him off his feet, and test this ...

— Fred Fenton Marathon Runner - The Great Race at Riverport School • Allen Chapman

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