RECUPERATE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does recuperate mean? 

• RECUPERATE (verb)
  The verb RECUPERATE has 4 senses:

1. regain or make up for

2. regain a former condition after a financial loss

3. restore to good health or strength

4. get over an illness or shock

  Familiarity information: RECUPERATE used as a verb is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RECUPERATE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they recuperate    ... he / she / it recuperates   
Past simple: recuperated   
Past participle: recuperated   
-ing form: recuperating   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Regain or make up for

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

Synonyms:

recoup; recover; recuperate

Context example:

recuperate one's losses

Hypernyms (to "recuperate" is one way to...):

acquire; get (come into the possession of something concrete or abstract)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "recuperate"):

catch up with; make up (make up work that was missed due to absence at a later point)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Sense 2

Meaning:

Regain a former condition after a financial loss

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

go back; recover; recuperate

Context example:

The company managed to recuperate

Hypernyms (to "recuperate" is one way to...):

regress; retrovert; return; revert; turn back (go back to a previous state)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "recuperate"):

rally; rebound (return to a former condition)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s
Somebody ----s
Something is ----ing PP

Sense 3

Meaning:

Restore to good health or strength

Classified under:

Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care

Hypernyms (to "recuperate" is one way to...):

bring around; cure; heal (provide a cure for, make healthy again)

Verb group:

convalesce; recover; recuperate (get over an illness or shock)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody

Derivation:

recuperation (gradual healing (through rest) after sickness or injury)

recuperative (promoting recuperation)

Sense 4

Meaning:

Get over an illness or shock

Classified under:

Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care

Synonyms:

convalesce; recover; recuperate

Context example:

The patient is recuperating

Hypernyms (to "recuperate" is one way to...):

ameliorate; better; improve; meliorate (get better)

Verb group:

recuperate (restore to good health or strength)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "recuperate"):

gain vigor; percolate; perk; perk up; pick up (gain or regain energy)

snap back (recover quickly)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s

Antonym:

deteriorate (grow worse)

Derivation:

recuperation (gradual healing (through rest) after sickness or injury)

recuperative (promoting recuperation)

 Context examples 

The week’s rest had recuperated the dogs and put them in thorough trim.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

Often and often, her last-reserve force gone, I have seen her stretched flat on her back on the sand in the way she had of resting and recuperating.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

We want sleep, both you and I, and rest to recuperate.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

One of the possible results of an adverse event outcome that indicates that the event has not improved or recuperated.

(Not Recovered or Not Resolved, NCI Thesaurus)

In the meantime he drifted, resting and recuperating after the long traverse he had made through the realm of knowledge.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

His wretched physical condition explained why he lingered; and when he had recuperated, after several days' sojourn, he disappeared.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

But I soothed and comforted her, till she pulled herself bravely together and recuperated mentally as quickly as she was wont to do physically.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Emotional delight is followed by no more than jaded senses which speedily recuperate.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)