recoveredadj.
/rᵻˈkʌvəd/, U.S. /rəˈkəvərd/, /riˈkəvərd/ 1. That has been restored; regained, brought back into one's control or possession.
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the world > health and disease > healing > recovery > [adjective] > recovered
yheledc900
wholeeOE
safec1300
halec1330
healeda1400
recovered1477
bettered?1533
resuscitated1576
wella1616
stout?1697
a hundred per cent1960
1477 Earl Rivers tr. Dictes or Sayengis Philosophhres (Caxton) (1877) lf. 1 To dispose my recouerd lyf to his seruyce.
1483 Catholicon Anglicum (BL Add. 89074) (1881) 301 Recouerde, recuperatus.
1594 T. Lodge & R. Greene Looking Glasse sig. I2v Go bring glad tydings of recouered grace.
1620 tr. G. Boccaccio Decameron II. x. iv. f. 151 It was more then manifest, that the recouered person, was become iustly seruant to the second Master.
1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost i. 240 By their own recover'd strength. View more context for this quotation
1681 J. Flavell Method of Grace xviii. 331 And shall not the recovered soul..greatly rejoyce?
1745 E. Haywood Female Spectator III. xiv. 121 Grow thankful for recovered Peace.
1791 C. Reeve School for Widows I. i. 12 The first use I made of my recovered Liberty, was to enquire after the friends of my youth.
1811 J. Austen Sense & Sensibility II. iv. 63 Marianne rose the next morning with recovered spirits and happy looks. View more context for this quotation
1870 C. Dickens Let. 27 Jan. (2002) XII. 471 That it will leave you in a really recovered state of good health.
1937 E. Wharton Let. 9 Apr. (1988) 603 My vista of recovered health in the spring has been clouded over by three successive attacks of flu.
1998 Mirror 1 Apr. 35/2 Police sales of unclaimed lost, stolen and recovered possessions... ‘Aladdin's Caves’, the contents of which are auctioned regularly.
2002 E. L. Haney Inside Delta Force (2003) 316 We rapidly loaded the recovered ‘prisoners’ on the waiting helicopters and got the hell out of Dodge.
2. That has been removed or extracted from waste material for reuse or recycling.
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society > occupation and work > materials > types of material generally > [adjective] > set aside for reuse or recycling
recovered1758
recycle1961
1758 Philos. Trans. 1757 (Royal Soc.) 50 157 The recovered gold was frequently, but not constantly, found to be pure.
1866 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 156 303 The weight of the recovered cotton indicated a loss upon the original substance employed.
1906 R. W. Sindall Paper Technol. iv. 37 The organic matter is burnt off, and the mass left behind consists mainly of impure carbonate of soda. This residue is known as ‘recovered ash’.
1952 F. H. Norris Paper & Paper Making xiv. 225 The most important point is the final recovery cost as compared with the value of the recovered fibre.
1994 New Scientist 5 Feb. 21/2 Recovered sulphur is sold for sulphuric acid.
2006 D. Max Family that couldn't Sleep (2007) iii. xi. 178 The result, known as mechanically recovered meat..was a central component of hamburgers.
3. Of a person: that has recovered from an illness, addiction, etc.
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1947 Jrnl. Criminal Law & Criminol. 38 398 Empirical techniques have been worked out by recovered alcoholics.
1956 Times 2 Mar. 7/4 I am classed as a recovered heart patient.
1977 San Antonio (Texas) Light 28 Sept. 8 c/4 If she could talk or write to a recovered anorexic, her progress might be much faster.
2001 S. R. Jordan Immune Spirit iii. 19 Research with recovered cancer patients showed that positive feelings of hope and expectancy cause the brain to respond instantly, creating an array of powerful hormones.
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recovered memory n. the restoration of memories, esp. of childhood sexual abuse, that had apparently been lost or suppressed, occurring during psychotherapy or psychoanalysis (frequently in recovered memory syndrome); a specific memory that had apparently been lost or suppressed; cf. false memory n.
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1941 Psychoanalytic Rev. 28 130 The failure of a patient to react favorably with clinical improvement following a recovered memory of incidents upon which symptoms have been founded is one of the really important problems still remaining to be clearly understood in analysis.
1972 Physiol. & Behavior 8 645 The recovered memory was found to be stable over repeated test trials.
1993 Sunday Times 14 Nov. 22/7 ‘Recovered memory syndrome’, in which children and adults ‘discover’ under therapy that they were abused as children, is one of the most painful issues dividing American families.
2004 A. G. Harvey et al. Cognitive Behavioural Processes across Psychol. Disorders 87 It is likely that some reports of recovered memories are false, but possible that some reports of recovered memories are true.
recovered rubber n. (originally) = reclaimed rubber at reclaimed adj. 2b; (later also) old rubber used as fuel or reused elsewhere than in rubber products.
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society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > rubber materials > [noun] > reclaimed
recovered rubber1881
reclaimed rubber1883
shoddy1892
reclaim1922
1881 US Patent 249,970 1/1 The recovered rubber is subsequently dried and passed between rolls or mullers, whereby it is kneaded into a compact homogeneous mass.
1892 Sci. Amer. 7 May 293/2 Of all the materials used in rubber compounding, none was found to be as effective as recovered rubber.
2004 Nation (Nexis) 15 June Reports, laws, and different forms printed on recycled paper..and public roads paved in part by recovered rubber all represent huge markets.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2009; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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