recover
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: government
law
military
politics
war
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.
Inflected forms:
form: recovers
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: recovering
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: recovered
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: recovered
pos: verb
tags: past
form: no-table-tags
pos: verb
tags: table-tags
form: glossary
pos: verb
tags: inflection-template
form: recover
pos: verb
tags: infinitive
form: recover
pos: verb
tags: first-person
present
singular
form: recovered
pos: verb
tags: first-person
past
singular
form: recover
pos: verb
tags: present
second-person
singular
form: recoverest
pos: verb
tags: archaic
present
second-person
singular
form: recovered
pos: verb
tags: past
second-person
singular
form: recoveredst
pos: verb
tags: archaic
past
second-person
singular
form: recovers
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: recovereth
pos: verb
tags: archaic
present
singular
third-person
form: recovered
pos: verb
tags: past
singular
third-person
form: recover
pos: verb
tags: plural
present
form: recovered
pos: verb
tags: past
plural
form: recover
pos: verb
tags: present
subjunctive
form: recovered
pos: verb
tags: past
subjunctive
form: recover
pos: verb
tags: imperative
present
form: -
pos: verb
tags: imperative
past
form: recovering
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: recovered
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: recovre
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: recovers
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: recovre
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: To get back, to regain (a physical thing; in astronomy and navigation, sight of a thing or a signal).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: 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.
gloss: To salvage, to extricate, to rescue (a thing or person).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: 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.
gloss: To replenish to, resume (a good state of mind or body).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: At the top of the hill I asked to stop for a few minutes to recover my strength.
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.
gloss: To obtain a positive judgement; to win in a lawsuit.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: The plaintiff recovered in his suit, being awarded declaratory relief and a clearing of his name.
gloss: To gain as compensation or reparation, usually by formal legal process.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: to recover damages in trespass; to recover debt and costs in a legal action or that is owing
to recover lands in ejectment or common recovery
recover one's investment
gloss: To reach (a place), arrive at.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
transitive
examples: The forest is not three leagues off; / If we recover that, we're sure enough.
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.
Except he could recover one of the Cities of Refuge he was to die.
gloss: To restore to good health, consciousness, life etc.
pos: verb
tags: archaic
transitive
examples: The wine in my bottle will recover him.
And that they may recouer themſelues out of the ſnare of the deuill, who are taken captiue by him at his will.
Cnelius a physician[…]gave him a clyster, by which he was speedily recovered.
The fever must have run its course by now, and if he is about to die I will recover him.
gloss: To make good by reparation; to make up for; to retrieve; to repair the loss or injury of.
pos: verb
tags: archaic
transitive
examples: to recover lost time
Even good men have […]many failings and lapses to lament and recover.
21 May, 1665, Abraham Cowley, letter to Dr. Thomas Sprat
I do hope to recover my late hurt.
when I had recovered a little, Friday (said I) God will at last punish him severely
gloss: To regain one's composure, balance etc.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: Spinning round, he caught a stone with his ankle, but recovered quickly before turning to face me.
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.
gloss: To get better, to regain health or prosperity.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: I was hurt, but I knew I’d recover, given time.
Without calling in Business Recovery experts, the company saw trade and investor confidence recover sharply in the wake of the crisis.
I lost out in the deal, but I quickly recovered financially
It takes time and good health to recover from injury, surgery, a bereavement and emotional turmoil
My trip along the rest of the line is delightful. It's yet another route that has recovered from previous rationalisation by having tracks and platforms reinstated in recent years.
gloss: To recover from.
pos: verb
tags: archaic
transitive
examples: To the end of his days, he never fully recovered his daughter's death.
gloss: Recovery.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
examples: It was neuer in my thoughte saide laūcelot to withholde the quene from my lord Arthur / but in soo moche she shold haue ben dede for my sake / me semeth it was my parte to saue her lyf and putte her from that daunger tyl better recouer myghte come / & now I thanke god sayd sir Launcelot that the pope hath made her pees
gloss: A position of holding a firearm during exercises, whereby the lock is at shoulder height and the sling facing out.
pos: noun
gloss: The forward movement in rowing, after one stroke to take another (recovery).
pos: noun
tags: dated
Related words: recovery
Derived words: cryorecover
misrecover
overrecover
recoverability
recoverable
recoverance
recoveree
recoverin
recoveringly
recover one's senses
recoveror
unrecovered
recoverless
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