Recuperate

Quick meaning: Recuperate is a verb meaning (transitive) To restore (someone or something) to health, strength, or currency; to revive or rehabilitate.

Meaning

(transitive) To restore (someone or something) to health, strength, or currency; to revive or rehabilitate.

More Meanings

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

Example Sentences

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

[…] 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.

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.

Word Forms

• recuperates
• recuperating
• recuperated

Synonyms for recuperate

Depending on context, synonyms include recover, convalesce.

Antonyms for recuperate

Common opposites include degenerate, drop, deteriorate.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include convalesce, recover, retrieve, reclaim, regain, recapture.

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