Definitions
get over an illness or shock
Word origin
Borrowed from Latin recuperāre, alternative form of reciperāre (“get again, regain, recover”). Doublet of recover. The pronunciation without /j/ may have been influenced by the semantically similar, but etymologically distinct verb recoup.
Used in a sentence
“As you recuperate, you’ll crave / the life lived by the knave, behave!”
“[...] of each province in 1842 and 1894 - that is, before the Taiping rebellion, and since China has recuperated her forces.”
“Mannheim's purpose when elaborating his typology of ideology was, as we have seen above, to recuperate the concept of ideology for scientific politics, after having discarded elements of Manichean egocentricity.”
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