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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Recover :: Recover (v. t.) To overcome; to get the better of, -- as a state of mind or body..
Revive :: Revive (v. i.) To recover its natural or metallic state, as a metal..
Possibly :: Possibly (adv.) In a possible manner; by possible means; especially, by extreme, remote, or improbable intervention, change, or exercise of power; by a chance; perhaps; as, possibly he may recover..
Post-disseizor :: Post-disseizor (n.) A person who disseizes another of lands which the disseizee had before recovered of the same disseizor.
Weldon''s Process :: Weldon's process () A process for the recovery or regeneration of manganese dioxide in the manufacture of chlorine, by means of milk of lime and the oxygen of the air; -- so called after the inventor..
Unproselyte :: Unproselyte (v. t.) To convert or recover from the state of a proselyte.
Recover :: Recover (v. i.) To obtain a judgement; to succeed in a lawsuit; as, the plaintiff has recovered in his suit..
Recollect :: Recollect (v. t.) To recover or recall the knowledge of; to bring back to the mind or memory; to remember.
Eviction :: Eviction (n.) The act or process of evicting; or state of being evicted; the recovery of lands, tenements, etc., from another's possession by due course of law; dispossession by paramount title or claim of such title; ejectment; ouster..
Revalescent :: Revalescent (a.) Growing well; recovering strength.
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..
Readept :: Readept (v. t.) To regain; to recover.
Readeption :: Readeption (n.) A regaining; recovery of something lost.
Recovering :: Recovering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Recove.
Vouchee :: Vouchee (n.) The person who is vouched, or called into court to support or make good his warranty of title in the process of common recovery..
Convalescent :: Convalescent (n.) One recovering from sickness.
Remedy :: Remedy (n.) The legal means to recover a right, or to obtain redress for a wrong..
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..
Irretrievable :: Irretrievable (a.) Not retrievable; irrecoverable; irreparable; as, an irretrievable loss..
Creep :: Creep (v. i.) To drag in deep water with creepers, as for recovering a submarine cable..
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