Definition of recover

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Recover (v. i.) To regain health after sickness; to grow well; to be restored or cured; hence, to regain a former state or condition after misfortune, alarm, etc.; -- often followed by of or from; as, to recover from a state of poverty; to recover from fright..

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Elasticity :: Elasticity (n.) Power of resistance to, or recovery from, depression or overwork..
Recovery :: Recovery (n.) Restoration from sickness, weakness, faintness, or the like; restoration from a condition of mistortune, of fright, etc..
Wind :: Wind (v. t.) To rest, as a horse, in order to allow the breath to be recovered; to breathe..
Recapture :: Recapture (n.) The act of retaking or recovering by capture; especially, the retaking of a prize or goods from a captor..
Readept :: Readept (v. t.) To regain; to recover.
Redeem :: Redeem (v. t.) To ransom, liberate, or rescue from captivity or bondage, or from any obligation or liability to suffer or to be forfeited, by paying a price or ransom; to ransom; to rescue; to recover; as, to redeem a captive, a pledge, and the like..
Unproselyte :: Unproselyte (v. t.) To convert or recover from the state of a proselyte.
Recuperation :: Recuperation (n..) Recovery, as of anything lost, especially of the health or strength..
Escheat :: Escheat (n.) A writ, now abolished, to recover escheats from the person in possession..
Recollect :: Recollect (v. t.) To recover or recall the knowledge of; to bring back to the mind or memory; to remember.
Recover :: Recover (v. t.) To gain by motion or effort; to obtain; to reach; to come to.
Recoverer :: Recoverer (n.) One who recovers.
Recoveror :: Recoveror (n.) The demandant in a common recovery after judgment.
Creep :: Creep (v. i.) To drag in deep water with creepers, as for recovering a submarine cable..
Restitution :: Restitution (v.) The act of returning to, or recovering, a former state; as, the restitution of an elastic body..
Recover :: Recover (v. t.) To make good by reparation; to make up for; to retrieve; to repair the loss or injury of; as, to recover lost time..
Gavelet :: Gavelet (n.) An ancient special kind of cessavit used in Kent and London for the recovery of rent.
Convalesce :: Convalesce (v. i.) To recover health and strength gradually, after sickness or weakness; as, a patient begins to convalesce..
Bloodhound :: Bloodhound (n.) A breed of large and powerful dogs, with long, smooth, and pendulous ears, and remarkable for acuteness of smell. It is employed to recover game or prey which has escaped wounded from a hunter, and for tracking criminals. Formerly it was used for pursuing runaway slaves. Other varieties of dog are often used for the same purpose and go by the same name. The Cuban bloodhound is said to be a variety of the mastiff..
Retrievable :: Retrievable (a.) That may be retrieved or recovered; admitting of retrieval.
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