Synonyms for recover
rɪˈkʌv ərre·cov·er

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1. recover

   The transitive use of recover in the sense of cure, heal, etc., as in 2 Kings v, 6, "That thou mayest recover him of his leprosy," is now practically obsolete. The chief transitive use of recover is in the sense to obtain again after losing, regain, repossess, etc.; as, to recover stolen goods; to recover health. The intransitive sense, be cured, be restored, etc., is very common; as, to recover from sickness, terror, or misfortune.

   Synonyms:
   be cured, be healed, be restored, cure, heal, reanimate, recruit, recuperate, regain, repossess, restore, resume, retrieve

   Antonyms:
   die, fail, grow worse, relapse, sink

   Preposition:
   From; rarely of; (Law) to recover judgment against, to recover damages of or from a person.

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1. recover

   Synonyms:
   regain, repossess, resume, retrieve, recruit, heal, cure, revive, restore, reanimate, save

   Antonyms:
   lose, forfeit, miss, sacrifice, deteriorate, impair, decay, decline, relapse

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1. recover, retrieve, find, regainverb

   get or find back; recover the use of

   "She regained control of herself"; "She found her voice and replied quickly"

   Synonyms:
   line up, detect, go back, find oneself, recoup, get, get hold, recollect, recuperate, find, reclaim, rule, notice, convalesce, call up, chance, determine, see, find out, come up, think, encounter, happen, retrieve, feel, incur, observe, recall, witness, call back, ascertain, bump, remember, regain, obtain, discover, receive

2. recuperate, recover, convalesceverb

   get over an illness or shock

   "The patient is recuperating"

   Synonyms:
   retrieve, reclaim, go back, recuperate, recoup, regain, convalesce, find

3. recover, go back, recuperateverb

   regain a former condition after a financial loss

   "We expect the stocks to recover to $2.90"; "The company managed to recuperate"

   Synonyms:
   retrieve, reclaim, date back, find, recuperate, recoup, go back, recur, regain, convalesce, date from

4. recover, recoup, recuperateverb

   regain or make up for

   "recuperate one's losses"

   Synonyms:
   retrieve, reclaim, reimburse, find, recuperate, withhold, recoup, go back, deduct, regain, convalesce

5. reclaim, recoververb

   reuse (materials from waste products)

   Synonyms:
   recuperate, regenerate, tame, domesticize, retrieve, convalesce, go back, rectify, domesticise, domesticate, reform, regain, repossess, find, recoup, reclaim

6. recoververb

   cover anew

   "recover a chair"

   Synonyms:
   retrieve, reclaim, find, recuperate, recoup, go back, regain, convalesce

Matched Categories

1. • Cover
   • Get
   • Improve
   • Recycle

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1. rewrap

   you can cover/wrap, and they can mean the same thing. so rewrap, and recover mean the same thing.

   he opened his present to early, so i had to rewrap it again.

   Submitted by rinat on August 15, 2019  

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1. recoververb

   Synonyms:
   regain, recuperate, get back

2. recoververb

   Synonyms:
   retrieve, restore, repair, recruit, re-establish

3. recoververb

   Synonyms:
   (Law.) obtain by course of law, get by judgment

4. recoververb

   Synonyms:
   rally, regain health, get well, be restored to health

5. recoververb

   Synonyms:
   be restored, be reinstated, regain the former state

6. recoververb

   Synonyms:
   (Law.) obtain judgment

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1. recoververb

   Synonyms:
   regain, reclaim, retrieve, repair, recoup, recruit, rally, repossess, recuperate

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1. List of paraphrases for "recover":

   retrieve, regain, recovery, retrieving, reclaim, recoup, restore, recovering, retrieved, retrieves, recuperate, collect, retreive, recapture, retrive, retrieval, re-establish, rebound, resume, recovers, repossess, salvage, reacquire, back

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How to use recover in a sentence?

1. Christopher Harley:

   What worries me is that if you start getting heat waves like this, every 10 years instead of every 1,000 years or every five years, then it's you're getting hit too hard, too rapidly to actually ever recover, and then the ecosystem is going to just look very, very different.

2. Boris Johnson:

   If we fail again, if we kick the can down the road on 31st October, if we continue to delay, if we treat this as a fake deadline, just yet another rigmarole, then I think the voters will be very frustrated indeed, and I think that our party, the Conservative Party, which I fought for a very long time across this country, I think that we will not easily recover.

3. Bruno Deslandes:

   We're trying to recover a lot of artifacts and need all local and international resources to work. Iraq cannot do this on its own.

4. Anthony Russo:

   The theatrical experience will always be there, it will recover.

5. Karl Turk:

   Most patients do not recover well.