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Verb: recuperate  ri'koo-pu,reyt
  1. Get over an illness or shock
    "The patient is recuperating";
    - recover, convalesce
     
  2. Restore to good health or strength
    "After the surgery, she spent a month recuperating at home"
     
  3. Regain or make up for
    "recuperate one's losses";
    - recover, recoup
     
  4. Regain a former condition after a financial loss
    "The company managed to recuperate";
    - recover, go back

Derived forms: recuperated, recuperating, recuperates

Type of: acquire, ameliorate, better, cure, get, heal, improve, meliorate, regress, retrovert [rare], return, revert, turn back

Encyclopedia: Recuperate