recuperate
/ri'kju:pəreit/
Definition
- Verb:
- To recover from illness or exhaustion: To regain health, strength, or vitality after a period of sickness, weakness, or fatigue.
- To recover from financial loss: To regain a former, more favorable condition, especially in a financial or economic context.
- To regain or make up for something lost: To recover or compensate for losses, such as money, time, or position.
Usage and Examples
- To recover health:
- After a week of rest, she began to recuperate from the flu.
- The athlete needs several months to fully recuperate from the surgery.
- To recover financially:
- The business took years to recuperate after the economic crisis.
- Investors hope the market will recuperate its losses by next quarter.
- To regain something lost:
- He worked extra hours to recuperate the time spent on his vacation.
Advanced Usage and Nuances
- Intransitive vs. Transitive Use: "Recuperate" can be used both without a direct object (intransitive) and with one (transitive).
- Intransitive: The patient is recuperating nicely. (Focus is on the subject's recovery.)
- Transitive: The company aims to recuperate its investment. (Focus is on regaining a specific thing.)
- Formal Register: The word is more common in formal, medical, or business contexts than in casual conversation, where "recover" is often used.
Variants and Related Words
- Recuperation (noun): The process of recuperating.
- His recuperation from the injury was remarkably swift.
- Recuperative (adjective): Aiding or relating to recuperation.
- The spa offers recuperative therapies.
Synonyms
- Recover: The most general synonym; to return to a normal state.
- Convalesce: Specifically to recover health and strength after illness, often implying a gradual process.
- Rally: To recover strength or health, often after a setback or decline.
- Bounce back: An informal phrase meaning to recover quickly.
Antonyms
- Deteriorate: To become progressively worse.
- Relapse: To fall back into illness or poor health after a period of improvement.
- Decline: To decrease in quality, power, or health.
Related Phrases and Idioms
- To be on the mend: An informal idiom meaning to be recuperating, especially from an illness.
- Don't worry, he's out of the hospital and on the mend.
- To regain one's strength/feet: Phrases focusing on the aspect of recuperating strength or stability.
- It took her a while to regain her strength after the pneumonia.
Verb
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get over an illness or shock
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The patient is recuperating
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restore to good health or strength
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regain a former condition after a financial loss
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We expect the stocks to recover to $2.90
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The company managed to recuperate
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regain or make up for
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recuperate one's losses
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