as in to recover
to become healthy and strong again after illness or weakness
half the office was out today, many employees being sick or recuperating from the flu
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Recent Examples of recuperate
Bolton said at the time that the surgery was a success and that he was focused on recuperating at home.
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Alli Rosenbloom, CNN Money, 30 Apr. 2025
The teens, and a 24-year-old who also was shot, were recuperating at a local hospital, officials said.
—Darrell Smith, Sacbee.com, 14 Apr. 2025
Track all markets on TradingView The stock market recuperated from a volatile week after Trump announced the 90-day pause.
—Ross O'Keefe, The Washington Examiner, 9 Apr. 2025
No one who has seen the Oscar-winning documentary Navalny can forget the scene where Navalny, recuperated from the poisoning, phones a Russian scientist Grozev has fingered as central to the plot.
—Matthew Carey, Deadline, 6 Apr. 2025
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Alli Rosenbloom, CNN Money, 30 Apr. 2025
The teens, and a 24-year-old who also was shot, were recuperating at a local hospital, officials said.
—Darrell Smith, Sacbee.com, 14 Apr. 2025
Track all markets on TradingView The stock market recuperated from a volatile week after Trump announced the 90-day pause.
—Ross O'Keefe, The Washington Examiner, 9 Apr. 2025
No one who has seen the Oscar-winning documentary Navalny can forget the scene where Navalny, recuperated from the poisoning, phones a Russian scientist Grozev has fingered as central to the plot.
—Matthew Carey, Deadline, 6 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for recuperate
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Lawmakers are acting with urgency in a special session because the professional sports teams face an end of June deadline to accept a competing offer from Kansas while residents in St. Louis are struggling to recover from May storms that caused an estimated $1.6 billion of damage.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
6 June 2025
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Iran's Military Setbacks The missile fuel shipments come as Iran seeks to recover from Israeli strikes that targeted its missile production facilities and proxy forces across Syria, Lebanon, and Yemen.—
Amir Daftari,
MSNBC Newsweek,
6 June 2025
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“Recuperate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/recuperate. Accessed 10 Jun. 2025.
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