Definition of recover

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Recover (v. t.) To gain as a compensation; to obtain in return for injury or debt; as, to recover damages in trespass; to recover debt and costs in a suit at law; to obtain title to by judgement in a court of law; as, to recover lands in ejectment or common recovery; to gain by legal process; as, to recover judgement against a defendant..

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Ejectment :: Ejectment (n.) A species of mixed action, which lies for the recovery of possession of real property, and damages and costs for the wrongful withholding of it..
Inning :: Inning (n.) Lands recovered from the sea.
Revive :: Revive (v. i.) To recover its natural or metallic state, as a metal..
Retrieve :: Retrieve (n.) The recovery of game once sprung; -- an old sporting term.
Crisis :: Crisis (n.) That change in a disease which indicates whether the result is to be recovery or death; sometimes, also, a striking change of symptoms attended by an outward manifestation, as by an eruption or sweat..
Irrecoverable :: Irrecoverable (a.) Not capable of being recovered, regained, or remedied; irreparable; as, an irrecoverable loss, debt, or injury..
Recuperation :: Recuperation (n..) Recovery, as of anything lost, especially of the health or strength..
Recoveree :: Recoveree (n.) The person against whom a judgment is obtained in common recovery.
Rally :: Rally (v. i.) To recover strength after a decline in prices; -- said of the market, stocks, etc..
Retriever :: Retriever (n.) A dor, or a breed of dogs, chiefly employed to retrieve, or to find and recover game birds that have been killed or wounded..
Analepsy :: Analepsy () Recovery of strength after sickness.
Decumbiture :: Decumbiture (n.) Aspect of the heavens at the time of taking to one's sick bed, by which the prognostics of recovery or death were made..
Convalescent :: Convalescent (n.) One recovering from sickness.
Suit :: Suit (n.) The attempt to gain an end by legal process; an action or process for the recovery of a right or claim; legal application to a court for justice; prosecution of right before any tribunal; as, a civil suit; a criminal suit; a suit in chancery..
Recuperate :: Recuperate (v. i.) To recover health; to regain strength; to convalesce.
Recovery :: Recovery (n.) Restoration from sickness, weakness, faintness, or the like; restoration from a condition of mistortune, of fright, etc..
Recovery :: Recovery (n.) The getting, or gaining, of something not previously had..
Redraft :: Redraft (n.) A new bill of exchange which the holder of a protected bill draws on the drawer or indorsers, in order to recover the amount of the protested bill with costs and charges..
Recovery :: Recovery (n.) In rowing, the act of regaining the proper position for making a new stroke..
Replevin :: Replevin (n.) A personal action which lies to recover possession of goods and chattle wrongfully taken or detained. Originally, it was a remedy peculiar to cases for wrongful distress, but it may generally now be brought in all cases of wrongful taking or detention..
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