recuperate
/ɹɪˈk(j)uːpəˌɹeɪt/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.73 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
4
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To recover, especially from an illness; to get better from an illness or from exhaustion (or sometimes from a financial loss, etc).
Intransitive verb
verb
To restore (someone or something) to health, strength, or currency; to revive or rehabilitate.
Transitive verb
Example Sentences
- "As you recuperate, you’ll crave / the life lived by the knave, behave!"
- "[...] of each province in 1842 and 1894 - that is, before the Taiping rebellion, and since China has recuperated her forces."
- "[...] one of many female poets who was trivialized and misrepresented for decades. When William Wordsworth recuperated her by praising her “Nocturnal Reverie,” he set what became a limiting factor in Finch's recovery: he treated her as a pre-Romantic ppoet of nature, and she became resituated in literary history as a much flatter or less complicated poet than she was in her lifetime."
- "In LS, July emerges as a survivor and a storyteller with a traumatic past who has recuperated her relationship with her lost son. Her questioning and humorously subversive discourse gives emotional and textual depth to […]"
- "Mannheim's purpose when elaborating his typology of ideology was, as we have seen above, to recuperate the concept of ideology for scientific politics, after having discarded elements of Manichean egocentricity."
- "She sought ultimately to recuperate the classical concept of the public realm against what she described, in negative terms, as the "rise of the social" characteristic of the modern world."
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin recuperāre, alternative form of reciperāre (“get again, regain, recover”). Doublet of recover. The pronunciation without /j/ may have been influenced by the semantically similar, but etymologically distinct verb recoup.
Origin
- Source language: Latin