See Also: recover(medicine)
recover(1)(dictionary)
recover(2)(dictionary)
recover(dictionary)
Recover - Golf(gambling)

recover(2) (iou)



recover verb1. ME.
[Anglo-Norman recoverer, Old French recovrer (mod. recouvrer) from Latin recuperare RECUPERATE.]
I. verb trans.
Restore to health, strength, or consciousness. In pass., be well again. ME.
Swift Any more than a dead carcase can be recovered to life by a cordial. J. Austen A young lady who faints, must be recovered. F. Marryat He..recovered her from an imminent..disease.
b. Restore to a good or proper condition; set or make right again; rescue. Now only from or out of a state. LME.
Regain health, strength, or consciousness after; get better from. Now rare. ME.
b. Make up for; make good (again); annul or remove the ill effect of. Now rare. LME.
C. Johnston To try..to recover the loss..we had been too late to prevent.
c. Cure, heal. M16-M18.
Regain as a quality, condition, or attribute; regain as a functioning faculty; regain the bodily use of. ME.
A. Helps I had..recovered my usual health. W. Cather Though he recovered his speech, it was..clouded.
b. Restore to another as a quality, condition, or attribute. L15.
c. Remember. rare. E17.
Get back into one's hands or possession; win back; spec. get back or obtain possession of or a right to by legal process. LME.
M. Pattison To annex to them those districts..he could recover for the empire. E. Welty A child's ball thrown over her fence was never to be recovered.
b. Find or come across again. E17.
c. Remove or extract for recycling or reuse. E20.
Get in place of or in return for. LME-E16.
gen. Get, obtain; get hold of; collect, gather up. LME.
recover the wind of = gain the wind of s.v. GAIN verb2.
Reach, arrive at. Now rare. LME.
b. Return to, get back to. LME-L17.
Restore to friendship, good relations, or willing obedience; reconcile. Now rare. L16.
Restore to a usual or recognized position; spec. (a) bring (a firearm) back to the recover position; (b) pull (a horse) back from a stumble etc. L16.
II. verb intrans. & refl.
a. verb intrans. & refl. Return; retreat; succeed in coming into, to, etc. ME-L17.
b. verb refl. Withdraw or escape from or out of. Now rare. E17.
verb intrans. & refl. Regain health, strength, or consciousness; get well; regain composure. (Foll. by from, (arch.) of.) LME.
D. Jacobson Days in bed, recovering from..bruises and shock. L. Hellman Hannah did not recover She died..after I left. L. Ellmann He waited..while I recovered myself.
verb refl. & intrans. Regain one's footing or balance; return to a former, usual, or correct position or state. (Foll. by from.) LME.
Day Lewis Never recovered from the agnosticism into which I lapsed during my youth. A. Mason Recovering himself from a perilously off-balance position. D. Adams He landed awkwardly, stumbled, recovered.
b. verb intrans. Fencing. Return to a position of guard after a thrust. E18.
c. verb intrans. Rise again after bowing or curtseying. E18.
verb intrans. Obtain possession or restoration of a thing by legal process. LME.
recove'ree noun (a) Law a person from whom property is recovered, spec. the defendant in an action of common recovery; (b) a person recovering from a disease or illness: M16.
recoverless adjective that cannot be recovered E17.