recover

Academic Word List, sublist 6.

About 9.96 uses per million words.

Meaning

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

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

2. verb To salvage, to extricate, to rescue (a thing or person).

   They recovered three of the explorers very much alive, then another, wracked with severe hypothermia, who was taken to hospital.

3. verb To replenish to, resume (a good state of mind or body).

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

4. verb To obtain a positive judgement; to win in a lawsuit.

   The plaintiff recovered in his suit, being awarded declaratory relief and a clearing of his name.

5. verb To gain as compensation or reparation, usually by formal legal process.

   to recover damages in trespass; to recover debt and costs in a legal action or that is owing

6. verb To reach (a place), arrive at.
7. verb To restore to good health, consciousness, life etc.
8. verb To make good by reparation; to make up for; to retrieve; to repair the loss or injury of.

   to recover lost time

Similar words

retrieve reclaim regain convalesce recuperate recoup go back find recovery retrieving

Often followed by

the from his damages their for a it and

Word family

recoverabilities recoverability recoverable recovered recoverer recoverers recovering recovers recovery