Recuperate

/ɹɪˈk(j)uːpəˌɹeɪt/ · verb

Meaning

(intransitive) To recover, especially from an illness; to get better from an illness or from exhaustion (or sometimes from a financial loss, etc)..

Definitions by Sense

1. (intransitive) To recover, especially from an illness; to get better from an illness or from exhaustion (or sometimes from a financial loss, etc).
2. (transitive) To restore (someone or something) to health, strength, or currency; to revive or rehabilitate.
3. (transitive) To recover; to regain.
4. (sociology) To co-opt (a problematic or suspect idea) so that it becomes part of an accepted discourse; to reclaim.

Example Sentences

[...] of each province in 1842 and 1894 - that is, before the Taiping rebellion, and since China has recuperated her forces.

[...] one of many female poets who was trivialized and misrepresented for decades. When William Wordsworth recuperated her by praising her “Nocturnal Reverie,” he set what became a limiting factor in Finch's recovery: he treated her as a pre-Romantic ppoet of nature, and she became resituated in literary history as a much flatter or less complicated poet than she was in her lifetime.

In LS, July emerges as a survivor and a storyteller with a traumatic past who has recuperated her relationship with her lost son. Her questioning and humorously subversive discourse gives emotional and textual depth to […]

Mannheim's purpose when elaborating his typology of ideology was, as we have seen above, to recuperate the concept of ideology for scientific politics, after having discarded elements of Manichean egocentricity.

She sought ultimately to recuperate the classical concept of the public realm against what she described, in negative terms, as the "rise of the social" characteristic of the modern world.

[…] there is also the danger […] that such a critique recuperates gender in terms that quite literally invisiblize the very issues of race and ethnicity […]

The fact that even many of the harshest critics of environmental thought have sought to somehow recuperate the concept reflects how deeply it has become embedded in our discourse.

Synonyms for recuperate

Antonyms for recuperate

Related Words

Word Forms

• recuperates
• recuperating
• recuperated

Usage Notes

Choose a synonym only when it preserves the intended meaning, tone, and grammar of the full sentence.

Practice and Learn More

Frequently Asked Questions