Recover

Quick meaning: Recover is a verb meaning (transitive) To get back, to regain (a physical thing; in astronomy and navigation, sight of a thing or a signal).

Meaning

(transitive) To get back, to regain (a physical thing; in astronomy and navigation, sight of a thing or a signal).

More Meanings

1. (transitive) To salvage, to extricate, to rescue (a thing or person).
2. (transitive) To replenish to, resume (a good state of mind or body).
3. (intransitive, law) To obtain a positive judgement; to win in a lawsuit.
4. (transitive, law) To gain as compensation or reparation, usually by formal legal process.
5. (transitive, obsolete) To reach (a place), arrive at.
6. (transitive, archaic) To restore to good health, consciousness, life etc.
7. (transitive, archaic) To make good by reparation; to make up for; to retrieve; to repair the loss or injury of.

Example Sentences

After days of inquiries, he finally recovered his lost wallet.

For days telescopes surveyed the skies to recover the small asteroid.

At the top of the hill I asked to stop for a few minutes to recover my strength.

And Dauid recouered all that the Amalekites had caried away: and Dauid reſcued his two wiues.

Word Forms

• recovers
• recovering
• recovered
• recoverest
• recoveredst
• recovereth
• recovre
• re-cover

Synonyms for recover

Depending on context, synonyms include recoup, recuperate, retrieve, reclaim, convalesce, go back.

Antonyms for recover

Common opposites include degenerate, drop, deteriorate.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include retrieve, reclaim, regain, convalesce, recuperate, recoup.

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