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recuperate

  • /ɹɪˈk(j)uːpəˌɹeɪt/

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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.

verb recuperates · recuperating · 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). As you recuperate, you’ll crave / the life lived by the knave, behave!
  2. transitive To restore (someone or something) to health, strength, or currency; to revive or rehabilitate. [...] of each province in 1842 and 1894 - that is, before the Taiping rebellion, and since China has recuperated her forces.
  3. transitive To recover; to regain. In LS, July emerges as a survivor and a storyteller with a traumatic past who has recuperated her relationship with her lost son. Her questioning and humorously subversive discourse gives emotional and textual depth to […]
  4. To co-opt (a problematic or suspect idea) so that it becomes part of an accepted discourse; to reclaim. 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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verb transitive

Españolrecuperar

verb intransitive: recover, especially from an illness

Españolrecuperarse

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"recuperate." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/recuperate. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026.

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"recuperate." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/recuperate.

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@misc{recuperate_2026,
  title = {recuperate},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/recuperate},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}