re-cover or recover /rē-kuvˈər/

To cover again

recover /ri-kuvˈər/

1. To get or find again
2. To regain
3. To reclaim
4. To extract (a valuable substance) from an ore, etc, or (usable material) from waste
5. To bring back
6. To retrieve
7. To cure (archaic)
8. To revive
9. To restore
10. To rescue
11. To succeed in reaching
12. To attain
13. To obtain as compensation
14. To obtain for injury or debt

1. To regain health or any former state
2. To get back into position
3. To obtain a judgement (law)

1. Recovery (obsolete)
2. Possibility of recovery (obsolete)
3. Return to a former position, as in rowing or exercise with a weapon
4. The position so resumed

recoverabilˈity noun

recovˈerable adjective

recovˈerableness noun

recovereeˈ noun

A person against whom a judgement is obtained in common recovery

recovˈerer noun

A person who recovers

recovˈeror noun

A person who recovers a judgement in common recovery

recovˈery noun

1. The act, fact, process, possibility or power of recovering, or state of having recovered, in any sense
2. A verdict giving right to the recovery of debts or costs (law)

recovered memory noun (psychology)

Memory of repressed childhood experiences, esp of being sexually abused, (apparently) recovered by psychoanalysis

recovery position noun

In the medical treatment of unconscious or semiconscious casualties, a position of the body on its side with the face tilted slightly upwards

recovery stock noun (finance)

A share that has fallen in price but is considered likely to rise again

recovery time noun

The minimum time interval between two separately-recorded events or states

recovery vehicle noun

1. A vehicle used to carry away another vehicle that has broken down or been involved in an accident
2. A vehicle used to collect isolated personnel or disabled vehicles from a battlefield (mil)

common recovery

A former method of transferring an entailed estate by a legal fiction

recover the wind of (Shakespeare)

1. To get to windward of (so as to drive a hare into a toil, or take the wind out of someone's sails)
2. To gain an advantage over

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