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Definition of Recover

Recover To cover again. To get or obtain again; to get renewed possession of; to win back; to regain. To make good by reparation; to make up for; to retrieve; to repair the loss or injury of; as, to recover lost time. To restore from sickness, faintness, or the like; to bring back to life or health; to cure; to heal. To overcome; to get the better of, -- as a state of mind or body. To rescue; to deliver. To gain by motion or effort; to obtain; to reach; to come to. To gain as a compensation; to obtain in return for injury or debt; as, to recover damages in trespass; to recover debt and costs in a suit at law; to obtain title to by judgement in a court of law; as, to recover lands in ejectment or common recovery; to gain by legal process; as, to recover judgement against a defendant. To regain health after sickness; to grow well; to be restored or cured; hence, to regain a former state or condition after misfortune, alarm, etc.; -- often followed by of or from; as, to recover from a state of poverty; to recover from fright. To make one's way; to come; to arrive. To obtain a judgement; to succeed in a lawsuit; as, the plaintiff has recovered in his suit. Recovery. Related Definitions: After, Again, Against, Alarm, And, Arrive, As, At, Back, Be, Better, Body, Bring, By, Come, Common, Compensation, Condition, Court, Cover, Cure, Cured, Damages, Debt, Defendant, Deliver, Effort, Ejectment, Faintness, Followed, For, Former, Fright, From, Gain, Get, Good, Grow, Heal, Health, Hence, His, Has, In, Injury, Law, Lawsuit, Legal, Life, Like, Loss, Lost, Make, Mind, Misfortune, Motion, Obtain, Of, Often, One, Or, Overcome, Plaintiff, Possession, Poverty, Process, Reach, Recover, Recovered, Recovery, Regain, Repair, Reparation, Rescue, Restore, Restored, Retrieve, Return, Sickness, State, Succeed, Suit, The, Time, Title, To, Trespass, Up, Way, Well, Win

Recover Quotations There is one consolation in being sick; and that is the possibility that you may recover to a better state than you were ever in before. Henry David Thoreau A lawyer's dream of heaven: every man reclaimed his property at the resurrection, and each tried to recover it from all his forefathers. Samuel Butler I only know it takes weeks to recover, as if one had been in a car accident. Patricia Highsmith A lawyer's dream of Heaven: Every man reclaimed his own property at the resurrection, and each tried to recover it from all his forefathers. Samuel Butler How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure. William James

Recover Translations recover in Danish is komme sig recover in Dutch is beter worden, genezen, helen recover in French is captons, capter, recouvrent, recouvrer, recouvrons recover in German is entdecken, wiederherstellen, erhole recover in Latin is recupero, revoco, executio recover in Portuguese is recupere recover in Spanish is reconstituir, recuperar, recobrar, sanar

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