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

1. transitive verb. To cover again.
2. transitive verb. To get or obtain again; to get renewed possession of; to win back; to regain.
3. transitive verb. To make good by reparation; to make up for; to retrieve; to repair the loss or injury of; as, to recover lost time.
4. transitive verb. To restore from sickness, faintness, or the like; to bring back to life or health; to cure; to heal.
5. transitive verb. To overcome; to get the better of, -- as a state of mind or body.
6. transitive verb. To rescue; to deliver.
7. transitive verb. To gain by motion or effort; to obtain; to reach; to come to.
8. transitive 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.
9. intransitive 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.
10. intransitive verb. To make one's way; to come; to arrive.
11. intransitive verb. To obtain a judgement; to succeed in a lawsuit; as, the plaintiff has recovered in his suit.
12. noun. Recovery.
13. verb. get over an illness or shock

    "The patient is recuperating"

    Synonyms: convalesce, recuperate

14. verb. regain a former condition after a financial loss

    "We expect the stocks to recover to $2.90"

    "The company managed to recuperate"

    Synonyms: recuperate

15. verb. cover anew

    "recover a chair"

16. verb. reuse (materials from waste products)

    Synonyms: reclaim

17. verb. get or find back; recover the use of

    "She regained control of herself"

    "She found her voice and replied quickly"

    Synonyms: find, regain, retrieve

18. verb. regain or make up for

    "recuperate one's losses"

    Synonyms: recoup, recuperate

Synonyms

convalesce, recuperate, reclaim, find, regain, retrieve, recoup

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in recover:

coverer

Common word forms

recovers, recovered, recoverer, recovering, recoverable, recoverless

Words from these letters

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