Verb: recuperate ri'koo-pu,reyt
- Get over an illness or shock
"The patient is recuperating";
- recover, convalesce
- Restore to good health or strength
"After the surgery, she spent a month recuperating at home"
- Regain or make up for
"recuperate one's losses";
- recover, recoup
- 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