recuperate

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   regain or make up for

   recuperate one's losses

2. 2
   verb

   To restore (someone or something) to health, strength, or currency; to revive or rehabilitate.

   [...] of each province in 1842 and 1894 - that is, before the Taiping rebellion, and since China has recuperated her forces.

3. 3
   verb

   To recover; to regain.

   In LS, July emerges as a survivor and a storyteller with a traumatic past who has recuperated her relationship with her lost son. Her questioning and humorously subversive discourse gives emotional and textual depth to […]

4. 4
   verb

   To co-opt (a problematic or suspect idea) so that it becomes part of an accepted discourse; to reclaim.

   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.

5. 5
   verb

   get over an illness or shock

6. 6
   verb

   restore to good health or strength

7. 7
   verb

   regain a former condition after a financial loss

8. 8
   verb

   To recover, especially from an illness; to get better from an illness or from exhaustion (or sometimes from a financial loss, etc).

Etymology

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.