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▸ verb: (transitive) to salvage, to extricate, to rescue (a thing or person)
▸ verb: (transitive) To replenish to, resume (a good state of mind or body).
▸ verb: (intransitive, law) To obtain a positive judgement; to win in a lawsuit.
▸ verb: (transitive, law) To gain as compensation or reparation, usually by formal legal process.
▸ verb: (transitive, obsolete) To reach (a place), arrive at.
▸ verb: (transitive, archaic) To restore to good health, consciousness, life etc.
▸ verb: (transitive, archaic) To make good by reparation; to make up for; to retrieve; to repair the loss or injury of.
▸ verb: (intransitive) To regain one's composure, balance etc.
▸ verb: (intransitive, followed by "from" to show what caused the bad feeling) To get better, to regain health or prosperity.
▸ verb: (transitive, archaic, without "from") to recover from
▸ noun: (obsolete) Recovery.
▸ noun: (military) A position of holding a firearm during exercises, whereby the lock is at shoulder height and the sling facing out.
▸ noun: (dated) The forward movement in rowing, after one stroke to take another (recovery)
▸ verb: To cover again.
▸ verb: (roofing) To add a new roof membrane or steep-slope covering over an existing one.
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regain,
retrieve,
convalesce,
recuperate,
reclaim,
recoup,
go back,
find,
restore,
recovery,
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