recuperate

CEFRC2

/ɹɪˈk(j)uːpəˌɹeɪt/

verb

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In plain English

  1. 01

    verb

    To recover health or strength after illness or difficulty.

  2. 02

    verb

    Extra detail

    To recover; to regain.

Examples

  • Mary needs to stay in bed if she wants to recuperate.

  • Sami has to stay in bed if he wants to recuperate.

At a glance

Sits at C2 on the CEFR scale

Senses
5
Parts of speech
1
Citations
5

Deep Dive

verb

Extra meanings

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

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

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

More examples

In context

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

  • As you recuperate, you’ll crave / the life lived by the knave, behave!

  • 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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Origin

verb

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.