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1847 Ladies' Repository Aug. 243/1 The mingling of races and nations, as it takes place in this country, may have a healthful and recuperating influence upon human blood and intellect.

1979 B. Parvin Deadly Dyke xxiv. 128 Recuperating firemen stood watching the thick palls of smoke.

1991 A. Chaudhuri Strange & Sublime Addr. (1992) xiv. 123 Every evening, in the garden, recuperating patients were taken around in wheelchairs by their nurses, or allowed to take gentle walks, with the firm and cautious hand of a nurse on the shoulder.

1650 Mercurius Politicus No. 18 307 It's supposed the Spaniard may improve this opportunity of visiting France, to a re-investing of that Duke, and a recuperating of at last part of his owne in Flanders.

1894 ‘R. Andom’ We Three & Troddles xix. 174 We each mentioned our favoured recuperating localities.

1955 Amer. Sociol. Rev. 20 535/1 Nurses help donors walk to the recuperating room.

2004 B. R. Singh et al. in R. Lal et al. Sustainable Agric. & Internat. Rice-Wheat Syst. xix. 331 Empowerment of rural communities may not only contribute to combating soil degradation but also to recuperating of degraded soils.