Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Recovery, as of something lost.
- n. Specifically, recovery of strength or health.
Wiktionary
- n. Gradual restoration to health; convalescence.
- n. Instance of getting something back.
- n. sociology Process by which radical or subversive ideas are co-opted by mainstream society.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. Recovery, as of anything lost, especially of the health or strength.
WordNet 3.0
- n. gradual healing (through rest) after sickness or injury
Etymologies
- Latin recuperātiō. See recuperate, -ation. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“He had never been close to Samuel David and was shocked to learn that the boy had insisted on staying with him during his recuperation from the car wreck.”
“KAREN STOP IT I am still emotionally recuperation from the LAST non-YA novel you gushed about (The Vintner's Luck hush it took me a while to find and then I had to wait in agony for it to arrive by post)”
“Collective Sigh is in recuperation ... best wishes!”
“The short term recuperation in terms of being back to normal activities is about one to two weeks.”
“Christmas Day is a non-event in many households, still in recuperation from the night-before’s festivities.”
“DANGERFIELD: For some reason my recuperation was a miracle.”
“Your recuperation is the time to consider all the other details that will take you to the threshold of good health and move you over the border, into a new appreciation of life.”
“Things like this only confirmed my invalid state and suggested that my recuperation was a long way off.”
“He certainly recovered himself quicker than anyone I have ever known: indeed I think his recuperation was the best sign of his enormous vitality.”
“Schiller and Spencer, based on the expenditure of superfluous activity and the opposite theory of Lazarus, who reduces play to a relaxation -- that is, a recuperation of strength -- are but partial explanations.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘recuperation’.
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Words build meanings from origins( et...
These come from gamma meditation ,I think.
discursive, exogenous, machinations, purportedly, sumptuous, congruity, cantankerous, incongruous, festoon, hessian, ratiocinative, stratigraphic and 2046 more...
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Specifically
Being a list of words which have "specifically" in their definitions.
recompose, specifically, Dutch, abstinence, discipline, virtue, namely, opening, century, amalgamation, cup, second and 303 more...
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Quacksalvers et al. Nostrum
Bring forth the cathartic illumination on malignant,maniacal,medical,menage a trios and more egotists stymie
culpability, piousfraud, capacitous, rhabdomyolysis, scapula, idiosyncrasy, quiescent, malignant, nefarious, sociological, sociopath, pathogen and 202 more...
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The Collection
A somewhat discriminatory list of words and phrases collected for their euphonic or arcane appeal, interesting etymology, or concise definition of an otherwise unnamed phenomenon or concept.
ziggurat, neophilia, sucker punch, soporific, epoch, tundra, fiat, idiotproof, miscellany, metaphysics, cryptozoology, dysphoria and 850 more...
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my dictionary
able, abnormally, abroad, absent, abstract, acceptable, acceptance, access, accessible, accession, according to, account and 4551 more...
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pop ups
erstwhile, allegiance, sacked, reinstate, vengeance, affluent, sedative, maverick, caricatives, abandoned, faux pas, ambience and 245 more...
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INTERP - VOCABULARY
The vocabulary of conference interpreting. I commend this list to those who want to know more about the profession and to those who wish to organize their knowledge about the profession. To aspirin...
retour language, A-language, B-language, C-language, relay language, take sy on relay, language booth, booth meeting, mic, mike, mission, freelance interpr... and 2086 more...
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GRE uncommon
patronage, expletive, exhort, exegesis, execrable, excommunicate, evince, escarpment, ersatz, ergo, epoxy, snare and 1202 more...
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Darqueau's list
banausic, nugatory, psychogeography, peripatetic, dérive, flâneur, banausos, brash, anarchy, dada, neo-plastic, potawatomi and 81 more...
Tweets
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darqueau "To survive, the spectacle must have social control. It can recuperate a potentially threatening situation by shifting ground, creating dazzling alternatives- or by embracing the threat, making it safe and then selling it back to us"
Jul 12, 2008