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/ɹɪˈkʌvə/ · verb
(transitive) To get back, to regain (a physical thing; in astronomy and navigation, sight of a thing or a signal)..
After days of inquiries, he finally recovered his lost wallet.
For days telescopes surveyed the skies to recover the small asteroid.
And Dauid recouered all that the Amalekites had caried away: and Dauid reſcued his two wiues.
Not unnaturally, “Auntie” took this communication in bad part. Thus outraged, she showed herself to be a bold as well as a furious virago. Next day she found her way to their lodgings and tried to recover her ward by the hair of the head.
All the comrades of the Party must strive with maximum courage and unswerving determination, together with our compatriots of the whole country, to carry out our historic task of recovering the mainland and reshaping the Chinese nation.
They recovered three of the explorers very much alive, then another, wracked with severe hypothermia, who was taken to hospital.
Network Rail doesn't expect the line through Carmont to open for around a month, as it faces the mammoth task of recovering the two power cars and four coaches from ScotRail's wrecked train, repairing bridge 325, stabilising earthworks around the landslip, and replacing the track.
At the top of the hill I asked to stop for a few minutes to recover my strength.
Use re cover when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Re cover means (transitive) To get back, to regain (a physical thing; in astronomy and navigation, sight of a thing or a signal)..
Common synonyms include recoup, recuperate, find, retrieve.
Possible antonyms include degenerate, drop, deteriorate.
After days of inquiries, he finally recovered his lost wallet.
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