Dictionary Entry
recover
recover is a 7-letter English word with 18 senses as transitive verb, intransitive verb, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To cover again. Face value is 12 in Scrabble and 14 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
7 letters · Scrabble 12 · Words With Friends 14 · 18 senses
Definitions
- 1transitive verb
To cover again.
- 2transitive verb
To get or obtain again; to get renewed possession of; to win back; to regain.
- 3transitive verb
To make good by reparation; to make up for; to retrieve; to repair the loss or injury of; as, to recover lost time.
- 4transitive verb
To restore from sickness, faintness, or the like; to bring back to life or health; to cure; to heal.
- 5transitive verb
To overcome; to get the better of, -- as a state of mind or body.
- 6transitive verb
To rescue; to deliver.
- 7transitive verb
To gain by motion or effort; to obtain; to reach; to come to.
- 8transitive verb
To gain as a compensation; to obtain in return for injury or debt; as, to recover damages in trespass; to recover debt and costs in a suit at law; to obtain title to by judgement in a court of law; as, to recover lands in ejectment or common recovery; to gain by legal process; as, to recover judgement against a defendant.
- 9intransitive verb
To regain health after sickness; to grow well; to be restored or cured; hence, to regain a former state or condition after misfortune, alarm, etc.; -- often followed by of or from; as, to recover from a state of poverty; to recover from fright.
- 10intransitive verb
To make one's way; to come; to arrive.
- 11intransitive verb
To obtain a judgement; to succeed in a lawsuit; as, the plaintiff has recovered in his suit.
- 12noun
Recovery.
- 13verb
get over an illness or shock
"The patient is recuperating"
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- 14verb
regain a former condition after a financial loss
"We expect the stocks to recover to $2.90"
"The company managed to recuperate"
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- 15verb
cover anew
"recover a chair"
- 16verb
reuse (materials from waste products)
Synonyms
- 17verb
get or find back; recover the use of
"She regained control of herself"
"She found her voice and replied quickly"
- 18verb
regain or make up for
"recuperate one's losses"
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