recuperate

About 0.39 uses per million words.

Meaning

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

Similar words

convalesce recover retrieve reclaim regain recapture recoup reacquire get back

Often followed by

from the and in at after his for their

Word family

recuperated recuperates recuperating recuperation recuperations