recuperate

Meanings

Verb

regain or make up for
- "recuperate one's losses"
regain a former condition after a financial loss
- "The company managed to recuperate"
restore to good health or strength
get over an illness or shock
To recover, especially from an illness; to get better from an illness or from exhaustion (or sometimes from a financial loss, etc).
To restore (someone or something) to health, strength, or currency; to revive or rehabilitate.
To recover; to regain.
To co-opt (a problematic or suspect idea) so that it becomes part of an accepted discourse; to reclaim.

Origin / 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.

Synonyms

convalesce, go back, recoup, recover

Antonyms

deteriorate

Scrabble Score: 14

recuperate is a valid Scrabble (US) TWL word
recuperate is a valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
recuperate is a valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 17

recuperate is a valid Words With Friends word