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Definition of Recuperate
1. Verb. Regain or make up for. "Recuperate one's losses"
Generic synonyms: Acquire, Get
Specialized synonyms: Catch Up With, Make Up
2. Verb. Regain a former condition after a financial loss. "The company managed to recuperate"
Generic synonyms: Regress, Retrovert, Return, Revert, Turn Back
Specialized synonyms: Rally, Rebound
Derivative terms: Recovery
3. Verb. Restore to good health or strength.
Related verbs: Convalesce, Recover
Derivative terms: Recuperation, Recuperative
4. Verb. Get over an illness or shock. "The patient is recuperating"
Specialized synonyms: Gain Vigor, Percolate, Perk, Perk Up, Pick Up, Snap Back
Generic synonyms: Ameliorate, Better, Improve, Meliorate
Derivative terms: Convalescence, Convalescent, Convalescent, Recovery, Recuperation, Recuperative
Antonyms: Deteriorate
Definition of Recuperate
1. v. i. To recover health; to regain strength; to convalesce.
2. v. t. To recover; to regain; as, to recuperate the health or strength.
Definition of Recuperate
1. Verb. To recover, especially from an illness; to get better from an illness. ¹
2. Verb. (sociology) To co-opt subversive ideas for mainstream use ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Recuperate
1. [v -ATED, -ATING, -ATES]
Medical Definition of Recuperate
1. To recover health and strength. From the latin recuperare meaning to regain, get back, recover. To recuperate is to convalesce. (12 Dec 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Recuperate
Literary usage of Recuperate
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Our Army Nurses: Interesting Sketches, Addresses, and Photographs of Nearly by Mary A. Gardner Holland (1895)
"In October there were a great many sick with the measles, but soon the disease
abated somewhat, and the regiment was ordered to Quincy, to recuperate. ..."
2. Medical Record by George Frederick Shrady, Thomas Lathrop Stedman, Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) (1898)
"... the choice of a place in which the tropical invalid may recuperate is by no
means a matter of indifference. Most city physicians, certainly those in ..."
3. John Drew by Edward Augustus Dithmar (1900)
"said of him in those days that he adhered blindly to any one policy in the face
of certain failure, he was unable to recuperate. His rent was the biggest in ..."
4. Dr. Chase's Family Physician, Farrier, Bee-keeper, and Second Receipt Book by Alvin Wood Chase (1874)
"... fertile and productive without any extraneous influences, as to expect the
stomach to recuperate its lost energy without aid, or assistance. "Treatment. ..."
5. History of Stoneham, Massachusetts by William Burnham Stevens, Francis Lester Whittier (1891)
"... earning large wages, but overwork injured his health and he was obliged to
give up and recuperate. After six months he went to ..."
6. The Portola Expedition of 1769-1770, Diary of Miguel Costanso by Miguel Costansó (1911)
"... country carefully, and also to '—'—' allow the animals to recuperate somewhat,
as they were in bad condition. Saturday, September 23. ..."
7. Travel Letters from New Zealand, Australia and Africa by Edgar Watson Howe (1913)
"Many of the passengers of the "Burgermeister" are invalids going home to recuperate
after an experience with the climate of Africa. TUESDAY, APRIL 8. ..."
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