Word: recover Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English recoveren, rekeveren, from Anglo-Norman recoverer and Old French recovrer, from Latin recuperāre, alternative form of reciperāre. Doublet of recuperate. The noun is from Middle English recover, from the verb. Pronunciation: /ɹɪˈkʌvə/, /ɹɪˈkʌvɚ/, /ɹəˈkʌvɚ/ 1. To get back, to regain (a physical thing; in astronomy and navigation, sight of a thing or a signal). Labels: transitive Example: After days of inquiries, he finally recovered his lost wallet. Example: For days telescopes surveyed the skies to recover the small asteroid. 2. To salvage, to extricate, to rescue (a thing or person). Labels: transitive Example: They recovered three of the explorers very much alive, then another, wracked with severe hypothermia, who was taken to hospital. Example: 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. 3. To replenish to, resume (a good state of mind or body). Labels: transitive Example: At the top of the hill I asked to stop for a few minutes to recover my strength. Example: Whether you need to recover from a stressful day, a strenuous workout or even an injury or surgery, restorative yoga may be just the thing for you. 4. To obtain a positive judgement; to win in a lawsuit. Labels: intransitive Example: The plaintiff recovered in his suit, being awarded declaratory relief and a clearing of his name. 5. To gain as compensation or reparation, usually by formal legal process. Labels: transitive Example: to recover damages in trespass; to recover debt and costs in a legal action or that is owing Example: to recover lands in ejectment or common recovery 6. To reach (a place), arrive at. Labels: obsolete, transitive Example: The forest is not three leagues off; / If we recover that, we're sure enough. Example: But with much ado the Christians recovered to Antioch, having ſcarce a third part of them left, their horſes all dead, and themſelves ſcarce mounted on their legs, miſerably weak; as what the mercy of ſword, plague, and famine had pleaſed to ſpare. 7. To restore to good health, consciousness, life etc. Labels: archaic, transitive Example: The wine in my bottle will recover him. Example: And that they may recouer themſelues out of the ſnare of the deuill, who are taken captiue by him at his will. 8. To make good by reparation; to make up for; to retrieve; to repair the loss or injury of. Labels: archaic, transitive Example: to recover lost time Example: Even good men have […]many failings and lapses to lament and recover. 9. To regain one's composure, balance etc. Labels: intransitive Example: Spinning round, he caught a stone with his ankle, but recovered quickly before turning to face me. Example: Meanwhile Nanny Broome was recovering from her initial panic and seemed anxious to make up for any kudos she might have lost, by exerting her personality to the utmost. She took the policeman's helmet and placed it on a chair, and unfolded his tunic to shake it and fold it up again for him. 10. To get better, to regain health or prosperity. Labels: intransitive Example: I was hurt, but I knew I’d recover, given time. Example: Without calling in Business Recovery experts, the company saw trade and investor confidence recover sharply in the wake of the crisis. 11. To recover from. Labels: archaic, transitive Example: To the end of his days, he never fully recovered his daughter's death.