Recuperate

Definition: Recuperate

Recuperate

Verb

1. Get over an illness or shock; "The patient is recuperating".

Date "recuperate" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1869. (references)

Synonyms: Recuperate

Synonyms: convalesce (v), recover (v). (additional references)

Antonym: deteriorate (v). (additional references)

Crosswords: Recuperate

English words defined with "recuperate": Recuperated, Recuperating. (references)

Etymologies containing "recuperate": Irrecuperable. (references)

Domain

Usage

Screenplays

What?! (struggles with his sword and gives up) Seeing as I'm a sportsman, I'll give you a moment to recuperate. (Samurai Jack; writing credit: Paul Waite)

If I ever catch you fibbing again like you did about John Truett, I'll give you something to recuperate about! (Meet Me in St. Louis; writing credit: Sally Benson; Irving Brecher)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Domain	Title
Music	Recuperate From Reality [IMPORT] (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Subject	Topic	Quote
Health		Abusers believe that pyramiding allows the body time to adjust to the high doses and the drug-free cycle allows the body's hormonal system time to recuperate. (references)
Business		However, with more effective fertilizers, future land may be set aside to practice the more sustainable eco-agriculture which allows land to recuperate from the strains of farming. (references)
		Current trends also suggest that, because of the country's political and economic crisis, the computer-related services market may not recuperate from the slowdown until 2001. Computer hardware and software products continue to be smuggled into Colombia as contraband or through money laundering activities. (references)
		It is estimated that at the end of year 2000, computers in use in Colombia surpassed three million units and that by the year 2005, the computer sector will represent over five percent of the GDP. Current trends suggest that, because of continuing security and economic uncertainty, the import and cross-border markets may not recuperate from the slowdown associated with the recession of 1998-2000 until 2001. Computer hardware and software products continue to be smuggled into Colombia as contraband or through money laundering activities. (references)
Economic History	Brazil	It is the intention of the textile/apparel productive chain to better integrate and organize themselves to recuperate the historic 1 percent of the world's market share. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

"Recuperate" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 97.83% of the time. "Recuperate" is used about 46 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Lexical Verb (infinitive)	97.83%	45	50,900
Lexical Verb (base form)	2.17%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	46	N/A

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "recuperate"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		rivendos (re establish, reclaim, recondition, reconstruct, redintegrate, redress, re-edify, reinstate, rejuvenate, renew, repair, replace, reproduce), rigjeneroj, shërohem (be on the mend, cure, do well, get abroad, get around, get better, get round, heal, mend, recover, resume one's health), çlodh (recreate, repose, rest, wind). (various references)

Arabic		‏تعافى (pep up), ‏عوض (atone, indemnity, make, make amends, make up, make up for, offset, recompense, recoup, redeem, reimburse, remunerate, requital, restore, retrieve, satisfy, setoff, substitute), ‏إستعاد (bring back, encore, give back, recapture, reconquer, recoup, recover, regain, resume, retrieve, scavenge, take), ‏إستراح (breathe, ensconce oneself, hit the hay, lighten, refresh, repose, rest, set at rest, stand at ease, subside), ‏إسترد (call, evict, get back, give back, recall, recapture, reconquer, recoup, recover, regain, resume, retake, retrieve, return, take back, withdraw), ‏شفى (cure, fix, get better, get over, get well, heal, mend, pull round, recover, restore, set up, skin). (various references)

Bulgarian		рекуперирам, възстановявам се (convalesce, pick up, recruit, regenerate, ride again), оздравявам (get round, get through, heal, on the mend, recover), оправям се (improve, manage, rub through, straighten, worry along). (various references)

Chinese		恢复 (recover, recovered, recovering, Recuperated, Recuperating, recuperation, Restoration, restore, Re-store, restored, Restoring, revert, Reverted, reverting). (various references)

Czech		zotavit se (convalesce, get better, mend, pick up, recover, recreate, refresh), znovu nabýt (get back), vzpamatovat se (collect oneself), vyléèit se (cure oneself). (various references)

Dutch		op verhaal komen (convalesce, get stronger, grow stronger), aansterken (convalesce, get stronger, grow stronger). (various references)

Esperanto		refortiĝi (convalesce, get stronger, grow stronger). (various references)

Farsi		نیروی تازه یافتن , حال امدن (Recruit), بهبودی یافتن (Ameliorate, Convalesce, Gain, Improve, Mend, Pickup, Pullround, Recover). (various references)

Finnish		virkistyä (be invigorated, gather new strength, recover strength, refresh oneself). (various references)

French		récupérer (recoup, recover, retrieve), se remettre (recover), se récupérer (recoup oneself). (various references)

German		sich erholen (better, convalesce, get better, have a rest, pick up, rally, recover, relax). (various references)

Greek		συνέρχομαι (cohere, come round, come to, congregate, convene, get over, meet, pull oneself together, pull round, recover from), αναρρωνύω (recover), αποθεραπεύομαι. (various references)

Hebrew		ל�"חליף כח (recover strength, refresh), ל�"חלים (cause to dream, convalesce, get over, get well, recover), ל�"בריא (convalesce, get better, get over, recover). (various references)

Hungarian		rendbe jön (to pick up), visszanyer (get back, recover, regain, resume, retrieve, to reclaim, to recover, to recuperate, to regain, to win back), talpra áll (to find one's legs, to get up, to pick up, to pull round, to pull through, to recover), meggyógyul (get well, pull through, recover, to get well, to heal, to pull round, to pull through, to recover, to recuperate). (various references)

Italian		ristabilirsi (convalesce, pull round, recover), riprendersi (perk up, rally, revive), riguadagnare (regain), rifarsi, ricuperare (get back, make up for, reclaim, recoup, recover, recycle, rehabilitate, retrieve, salvage), recuperare (recover, regain). (various references)

Korean		� �양하십시�". (various references)

Manx		slannaghey. (various references)

Pig Latin		ecuperateray

Portuguese		retemperar forças, restabelecer-se (rally, recover, recruit), restabelecer (re establish, redintegrate, reinstate, reset, resettle, restore, retrieve), refazer-se, recuperar (reclaim, recover, redeem, regain, restore, resume, retrieve), reaver (recapture, recover, retrieve), convalescer (convalesce, recruit). (various references)

Romanian		recãpãta (recover, regain, repossess, resume, retrieve), recâştiga (make up, recover, regain, resume, retrieve), vindeca (cure, heal, mend, remedy, repair), se vindeca (heal). (various references)

Russian		выздоравливать (convalesce, get well, recover). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		oporaviti se (convalesce, get over, rally, recover), oživeti (animate, come to life again, enliven, liven, liven up, resuscitate, revitalize, revive, vivify). (various references)

Spanish		recuperar (catch up, get back, hold, light out, make up for, reclaim, recoup, recover, regain, retrieve, undelete). (various references)

Swedish		hämta sig (come round, come to, rally, recover). (various references)

Turkish		zararını çıkarmak, yeniden kazanmak (regain), telâfi etmek (atone, atone for, compensate, make up, make up for, overcompensate, recoup, recover, redeem, redress, repair, repay, retrieve, right, undo), iyileştirmek (ameliorate, amend, better, cicatrize, cleanse, cure, heal, improve, make better, nurse, pull round, pull through, recruit, rehabilitate, remedy, set up, upgrade), iyileşmek (ameliorate, amend, be recovered from, cicatrize, come along, come through, come to, convalesce, do better, get better, get well, heal, heal over, heal up, improve, meliorate, mend, perk oneself, perk oneself up, pick up, pull round, pull through, rally, recover, recruit, return to health). (various references)

Ukranian		відновити сили, вилікувати (bring through). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	reciperet. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "recuperate": recuperated, recuperates. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Recuperate" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: arciprete, reccuperate, recorporate, recouperate. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "recuperate" (pronounced rikuw"perā't)
4	-p er ā' t	cooperate, evaporate, exasperate, incorporate, operate, reincorporate, separate.
3	-er ā' t	accelerate, adulterate, agglomerate, ameliorate, collaborate, commemorate, commiserate, corroborate, decelerate, decorate, deteriorate, enumerate, eviscerate, exaggerate, exhilarate, exonerate, federate, generate, inaugurate, incarcerate, incinerate, invigorate, lacerate, liberate, obliterate, perforate, proliferate, redecorate, refrigerate, regenerate, reinvigorate, reiterate, reverberate, saturate, tolerate, venerate.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-c-e-e-e-p-r-r-t-u"
	-1 letter: recapture.
	-2 letters: aperture, capturer, creature, preerect, recarpet, recreate, repartee, repeater, rerepeat.
	-3 letters: caperer, capture, caterer, creeper, erecter, pearter, precure, prerace, rapture, recrate, reerect, retrace, taperer, terrace.
	-4 letters: acuter, apercu, career, carper, carpet, carter, cerate, crater, create, curare, curate, curter, ecarte, parure, perter, prater, preact, precut, reaper, recept, repeat, repute, retape, retear, teacup, tearer, terrae, tracer, uprate, uprear, uptear, ureter.
	-5 letters: acute, apter, arete, caper, caput, carer, caret, carte, cater, crape, crate, creep, crepe, crept, cruet, crura, curer, curet, cuter, eater, epact, erect, eruct, erupt, etape, pacer, parer, pareu, pater, peace, peart, perea, peter, prate, pruta, puree, purer, racer, raper, rater, react, recap, recta, recur, recut, rupee, taper, tarre, taupe, tepee, terce, terra, trace, truce, truer, urare, urate.
	Words containing the letters "a-c-e-e-e-p-r-r-t-u"
	+1 letter: recuperated, recuperates.
	+2 letters: recuperative.
	+5 letters: interperceptual.
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