recovered
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Definition
Adjective: 1. Restored to health or normal condition: Describes a person, animal, or thing that has returned to a healthy, sound, or functional state after an illness, injury, loss, or period of difficulty. 2. Regained or retrieved: Describes something that was lost, stolen, or misplaced and has been found or taken back.
Usage and Examples
- Describing a person's health:
- The doctor confirmed she was fully recovered from the flu.
- After months of physical therapy, his strength is recovered.
- Describing the return of a lost item or state:
- The police recovered the stolen artwork, and it is now safely recovered in the museum vault.
- The company has recovered its financial losses from last quarter.
Advanced Usage
- "to be recovered from": To be no longer suffering the effects of something (an illness, shock, emotional trauma).
- It took him years to feel truly recovered from the accident.
- "recovered memory": (Psychology) A memory of a traumatic event, supposedly recalled after being blocked from the conscious mind for a long period. This term is used in specific clinical contexts.
Variants and Related Words
- Recover (verb): To get back, to regain health or possession.
- He needs to recover his strength.
- Recovery (noun): The process of recovering.
- The economy is in a period of recovery.
- Recoverable (adjective): Capable of being recovered.
- The data is likely recoverable from the damaged drive.
Synonyms
- Healed: (for health) Restored to sound condition.
- Retrieved: (for objects) Got back, regained.
- Restored: Brought back to an original or normal state.
- Convalescent: Recovering from illness (often implies the process is ongoing).
Antonyms
- Lost: Unable to be found.
- Ill / Injured: In poor health or physically harmed.
- Deteriorated: Become worse.
Related Phrases
- Make a full recovery: To return to complete health.
- We hope you make a full recovery.
- Recover one's senses/composure: To become calm and rational again after being upset or shocked.
- She paused for a moment to recover her composure before speaking.
Adjective
- found after being lost
- freed from illness or injury
- the patient appears cured
- the incision is healed
- appears to be entirely recovered
- when the recovered patient tries to remember what occurred during his delirium- Normon Cameron