recover

Speech parts

1. recover - Noun

2. recover - Verb

Meaning

To get or obtain again; to get renewed possession of; to win back; to regain.

To make good by reparation; to make up for; to retrieve; to repair the loss or injury of; as, to recover lost time.

To restore from sickness, faintness, or the like; to bring back to life or health; to cure; to heal.

To overcome; to get the better of, -- as a state of mind or body.

To rescue; to deliver.

To gain by motion or effort; to obtain; to reach; to come to.

To gain as a compensation; to obtain in return for injury or debt; as, to recover damages in trespass; to recover debt and costs in a suit at law; to obtain title to by judgement in a court of law; as, to recover lands in ejectment or common recovery; to gain by legal process; as, to recover judgement against a defendant.

To regain health after sickness; to grow well; to be restored or cured; hence, to regain a former state or condition after misfortune, alarm, etc.; -- often followed by of or from; as, to recover from a state of poverty; to recover from fright.

To make one's way; to come; to arrive.

To obtain a judgement; to succeed in a lawsuit; as, the plaintiff has recovered in his suit.

Recovery.

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Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, and one by one. Charles Mackay

Everything else you grow out of, but you never recover from childhood. Beryl Bainbridge

When a deep injury is done to us, we never recover until we forgive. Alan Paton

The bird once out of hand is hard to recover. Danish Proverb

When a cow is lost it is something to recover its tail, were it only to make a handle for one's door. French Proverb

Not to wish to recover is a mortal symptom. Spanish Proverb

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