recover
/ɹɪˈkʌvɚ/
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.29 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
3
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "After days of inquiries, he finally recovered his lost wallet."
- "For days telescopes surveyed the skies to recover the small asteroid."
- "And Dauid recouered all that the Amalekites had caried away: and Dauid reſcued his two wiues."
- "Not unnaturally, “Auntie” took this communication in bad part. Thus outraged, she showed herself to be a bold as well as a furious virago. Next day she found her way to their lodgings and tried to recover her ward by the hair of the head."
- "All the comrades of the Party must strive with maximum courage and unswerving determination, together with our compatriots of the whole country, to carry out our historic task of recovering the mainland and reshaping the Chinese nation."
- "They recovered three of the explorers very much alive, then another, wracked with severe hypothermia, who was taken to hospital."
Etymology
From Middle English recoveren, rekeveren, from Anglo-Norman recoverer and Old French recovrer, from Latin recuperāre, alternative form of reciperāre. Doublet of recuperate. The noun is from Middle English recover, from the verb.
Origin
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ɹɪˈkʌvɚ/
- British English: /ɹɪˈkʌvə/
Usage
Inflected Forms
recovers (present, singular)
recovering (participle, present)
recovered (participle, past)
recovered (past)
no-table-tags (table tags)
glossary (inflection template)
recovered (first person, past)
recoverest (archaic, present)
recovered (past, second person)
recoveredst (archaic, past)
recovereth (archaic, present)
recovered (past, singular)