recuperate
IPA: rɪkˈupɝeɪt
verb
- (intransitive) To recover, especially from an illness; to get better from an illness or from exhaustion (or sometimes from a financial loss, etc).
- (transitive) To restore (someone or something) to health, strength, or currency; to revive or rehabilitate.
- (transitive) To recover; to regain.
- (sociology) To co-opt (a problematic or suspect idea) so that it becomes part of an accepted discourse; to reclaim.
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Examples of "recuperate" in Sentences
- The man was recuperated from the disease.
- Curly had to leave the team to recuperate.
- The People's Army of Vietnam needed time to recuperate.
- Leith was wounded in the action and sent home to recuperate.
- He was brought to the monastery of the Theatines to recuperate.
- After the war, the Choys were invited to England to recuperate.
- The division was withdrawn during the monsoon rains to recuperate.
- He was sent to England and eventually the United States to recuperate.
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