1. Returning to health after illness or debility
   "recovering children are difficult to keep in bed";
   - convalescent

1. Get or get back; recover the use of
   "She recovered her voice and replied quickly";
   - retrieve, find, regain
    
2. Get over an illness or shock
   "The patient is recovering";
   - recuperate, convalesce
    
3. Regain a former condition after a financial loss
   "We expect the stocks to recover to $2.90";
   - go back, recuperate
    
4. Regain or make up for
   "recover one's losses";
   - recoup, recuperate
    
5. Reuse (materials from waste products)
   "The factory recovered plastic bottles to make new products";
   - reclaim
    
6. Cover anew
   "recover a chair"

See also: ill, sick

Type of: acquire, ameliorate, better, cover, get, improve, meliorate, recycle, regress, reprocess, retrovert [rare], return, reuse, revert, turn back

Encyclopedia: Recovering