"recuperate" meaning in English

See recuperate in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Verb

IPA: /ɹɪˈk(j)uːpəˌɹeɪt/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-recuperate.wav [Southern-England] Forms: recuperates [present, singular, third-person], recuperating [participle, present], recuperated [participle, past], recuperated [past]
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. Etymology templates: {{root|en|ine-pro|*keh₂p-}}, {{bor|en|la|recupero|recuperāre}} Latin recuperāre, {{m|la|recipero|reciperāre|t=get again, regain, recover}} reciperāre (“get again, regain, recover”), {{doublet|en|recover}} Doublet of recover, {{m|en|recoup}} recoup Head templates: {{en-verb}} recuperate (third-person singular simple present recuperates, present participle recuperating, simple past and past participle recuperated)
  1. (intransitive) To recover, especially from an illness; to get better from an illness or from exhaustion (or sometimes from a financial loss, etc). Tags: intransitive Translations (recover from illness): възстановявам се (vǎzstanovjavam se) (Bulgarian), toipua (Finnish), parantua (Finnish), whakamāui (Maori), warysshen (Middle English), zdrowieć [imperfective] (Polish), wyzdrowieć [perfective] (Polish)
    Sense id: en-recuperate-en-verb-~w5imdDy Disambiguation of 'recover from illness': 58 9 30 3
  2. (transitive) To restore (someone or something) to health, strength, or currency; to revive or rehabilitate. Tags: transitive
    Sense id: en-recuperate-en-verb-MNLfOlwu
  3. (transitive) To recover; to regain. Tags: transitive
    Sense id: en-recuperate-en-verb-Ho4lEuQ3
  4. (sociology) To co-opt (a problematic or suspect idea) so that it becomes part of an accepted discourse; to reclaim. Categories (topical): Sociology
    Sense id: en-recuperate-en-verb-FJmDrtk2 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 19 22 10 49 Topics: human-sciences, sciences, social-science, sociology
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Related terms: recuperation, recuperable

Inflected forms

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