recuperatev.
/rᵻˈk(j)uːpəreɪt/, U.S. /rəˈkupəˌreɪt/, /riˈkupəˌreɪt/ 1.
a. transitive. In earlier use: to recover, regain (esp. health or energy). Now spec. (chiefly in technical contexts) to recover (something) for reuse.
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the world > health and disease > healing > recovery > recover (health) [verb (transitive)]
recuperate1542
the mind > possession > acquisition > obtain or acquire [verb (transitive)] > again or back
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covera1300
gain-covera1300
to get againc1380
recovera1387
becoverc1400
recounsel?a1425
recurea1425
win1489
redeem1526
readept1537
rehave1541
recuperate1542
regain1548
reobtain1579
retire1584
reget1585
to get back1587
retrieve1589
reprise1590
reprocure1590
reattain1595
relieve1596
recompassc1604
reacquire1627
reacquist1635
recruit1656
1542 A. Borde Compend. Regyment Helth Pref. sig. A.ij Your grace recuperatyng your helth.
1603 T. Dekker et al. Patient Grissill sig. E4v My opinion is I shall neuer recuperate the legittimate office of this member my arme.
1660 G. Mackenzie Aretina ii. 105 To recuperate our own, is but to defend our own.
1661 T. Blount Glossographia (ed. 2) Recuperate, to recover, rescue or get again.
1849 Fort Wayne (Indiana) Times 13 Dec. 2/3 He would make much greater exertion to recuperate his broken fortunes.
1896 J. A. H. Murray Let. 22 Apr. in K. M. E. Murray Caught in Web of Words (1977) xiv. 279 We reached the summit however, & recuperated our energies.
1938 A. E. Clayton Performance & Design Direct Current Machines (ed. 2) xii. 244 Since it is undesirable to waste all the energy output, dead load methods are only used in practice, even for comparatively small machines, when it is inconvenient to arrange to recuperate some of the energy.
1977 Guardian Weekly 7 Aug. 11/5 No plant in the world has shown that it can recuperate plutonium on an industrial scale from oxide-bearing fuel.
2012 J. J. Smith Older Scots ii. 18 In recent years this [classical] terminology has been recuperated by some scholars.
b. transitive. To recover (a loss).
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society > trade and finance > management of money > income, revenue, or profit > getting or making money > get or make money [verb (transitive)] > bring in (a revenue) > from a previous financial loss
to get upa1535
recoup1764
recuperate1867
1867 Times 31 Dec. 4/6 It will require years of great prosperity and profit to recuperate the losses sustained here by this sad calamity.
1891 M. Cole Cy Ross 101 He had recuperated his losses.
1924 Proc. Classical Assoc. 13 Both these Associations have fully recuperated any loss which they had made during the war.
1994 Independent (Nexis) 26 Apr. 35 Rinks began recuperating losses with ice galas, rodeos, anything that might bring the punters in.
2. † a. transitive. To restore (something) to its original condition. Obsolete. rare.
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the world > action or operation > amending > restoration > restore [verb (transitive)] > to original state
restore1501
repristinate1659
recuperate1700
1700 W. Salmon Pharmacopœia Bateana (ed. 2) i. ix. 309/2 The white Substance of Gold.., which is wont to be called fixed Silver, recovers its pristine colour, if recuperated with Antimony.
b. transitive. To restore (a person) to health or vigour. Chiefly reflexive or in passive with unexpressed agent.
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the world > health and disease > healing > heal or cure [verb (transitive)] > restore to health
healc1000
temperc1000
recoverc1330
covera1375
restorec1384
recovera1398
rectifya1400
revert1446
recruita1661
re-establish1664
to set up1686
to bring toa1796
reinstate1810
tinker1823
recuperate1849
to bring about1854
to pick up1857
to fetch round1870
re-edify1897
to pull round1900
the world > physical sensation > sleeping and waking > refreshment or invigoration > refresh or invigorate [verb (transitive)]
akeleOE
restOE
comfort1303
ease1330
quickc1350
recurea1382
refresha1382
refetec1384
restorec1384
affilea1393
enforcec1400
freshc1405
revigour?a1425
recomfortc1425
recreatec1425
quicken?c1430
revive1442
cheerc1443
refection?c1450
refect1488
unweary1530
freshen1532
corroborate1541
vige?c1550
erect?1555
recollect?1560
repose1562
respite1565
rouse1574
requicken1576
animate1585
enlive1593
revify1598
inanimate1600
insinew1600
to wind up1602
vigorize1603
inspiritc1610
invigour1611
refocillate1611
revigorate1611
renovate1614
spriten1614
repaira1616
activate1624
vigour1636
enliven1644
invigorate1646
rally1650
reinvigorate1652
renerve1652
to freshen up1654
righta1656
re-enlivena1660
recruita1661
enlighten1667
revivify1675
untire1677
reanimate1694
stimulate1759
rebrace1764
refreshen1780
brisken1799
irrigate1823
tonic1825
to fresh up1835
ginger1844
spell1846
recuperate1849
binge1854
tone1859
innerve1880
fiercen1896
to tone up1896
to buck up1909
pep1912
to zip up1927
to perk up1936
to zizz up1944
hep1948
to zing up1948
juice1964
1849 Defiance (Ohio) Democrat 29 Sept. All have suffered more or less from thirst and starvation... They and a goodly number of their brethren..tarried here until they were recuperated.
1855 W. Whitman Leaves of Grass 19 He staid with me a week before he was recuperated and passed north.
1864 T. L. Nichols 40 Years Amer. Life II. 117 Why..are these sisters not..sent to recuperate themselves in healthier conditions?
1872 M. Collins Two Plunges for Pearl III. v. 123 The sparkling wine soon recuperated Ianthe.
1922 T. S. Eliot Let. 26 Apr. (1988) I. 523 We should both love to come to Garsington as soon as we are back and recuperated.
1998 South Bend (Indiana) Tribune (Nexis) 20 May b3 I'm recuperating myself from a heart attack.
3. intransitive. To recover from illness or exertion. Also occasionally: to recover from a financial loss.
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the world > physical sensation > sleeping and waking > refreshment or invigoration > become refreshed or invigorated [verb (intransitive)]
to take (one's, a) breatha1398
to pull, shake oneself togethera1400
wheta1400
recomfortc1425
revigour1447
breathe1485
respirea1500
convailc1500
unweary1530
air1633
recruit1644
refresh1644
reanimate1645
invigorate1646
rally1646
to perk upa1656
renovate1660
reawake1663
freshen1694
renervate1801
recuperate1843
to recharge one's (also the) batteries1911
society > trade and finance > management of money > expenditure > financial loss > suffer financial loss [verb (intransitive)] > recover an expense or make up a loss again
recruit1698
recuperate1843
the world > health and disease > healing > recovery > recover or be healed [verb (intransitive)]
wholeeOE
botenc1225
cover1297
amendc1325
recovera1375
warisha1386
recovera1387
healc1390
recurec1400
soundc1402
mendc1440
convalesce1483
guarish1489
restore1494
refete?a1505
revert1531
to gather (or pick) up one's crumbs1589
cure1597
recruit1644
to perk upa1656
retrieve1675
to pick up1740
to leave one's bed1742
to sit up and take nourishment1796
to get round1798
to come round1818
to pull through1830
rally1831
to fetch round1870
to mend up1877
to pull round1889
recoup1896
recuperate1897
1843 U.S. Mag. & Democratic Rev. Aug. 156/1 When their nature must needs ‘recuperate’, it is supposed they ‘rotate’ for repose.
1864 G. A. Sala in Daily Tel. 9 Feb. Go into business; smash; recuperate.
1897 Cent. Mag. May 112 In the hope that he might soon recuperate and return to duty.
1904 J. London Sea-wolf xxxi. 295 I have seen her stretched flat on her back on the sand in the way she had of resting and recuperating.
1934 D. Hammett Thin Man xiii. 88 The Indians treated them with every consideration and insisted upon their remaining in the camp until they had fully recuperated from their hardships.
1989 A. C. Amor William Holman Hunt viii. 104 Anxiety caused a temporary breakdown of Hunt's health, and he went to stay with his Uncle Hobman in Ewell to recuperate.
4. transitive (reflexive). To restore (oneself) to solvency; to recoup (money).
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1848 Zanesville (Ohio) Courier 24 Mar. 2/2 Peace was the thing most necessary for France, and under its influence, she has been enabled to recuperate herself in all her departments, social, financial and industrial.
1882 W. E. H. Lecky Hist. Eng. 18th Cent. IV. xvi. 323 More commonly he paid a fixed sum to the clergyman, and recuperated himself by a grinding tyranny of the tenants.
1895 Athens (Ohio) Messenger & Herald 31 Oct. 3/1 You can afford to spend this, and more, knowing that you will have numerous opportunities to recuperate yourself in six years more in the Senate.
1911 Manitoba Morning Free Press 10 Jan. 10/1 He endeavored to recuperate himself by selling Lethbridge property to the miners in the Crow's Nest Pass towns.
1951 Huntington Libr. Q. 15 24 He wondered whether Cadogan would advise trying to recuperate themselves by further wagering.
1993 Afr. Amer. Rev. 27 388 Douglass wished to recuperate himself by recouping what slavery had deprived him of possessing: that sense of self based on ideas of time.
5. transitive. Originally U.S. To assimilate (a radical social or political movement, or a person or thing associated with such a movement) into mainstream culture, divesting it of subversive potential.
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the world > action or operation > safety > make safe or secure [verb (transitive)] > make safe or not dangerous > make harmless
unarm1569
to file (one's) teeth1599
cicurate1606
disenvenoma1711
scotch1726
defang1919
neutralize1937
sterilize1939
declaw1940
recuperate1967
the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > incorporation or inclusion > assimilation or absorption > assimilate or absorb [verb (transitive)]
supa1382
absorb1554
assimilate1578
imbibe1664
obsorb1684
recuperate1967
1967 Berkeley (Calif.) Barb 29 Dec. 9/2 The New Left..may be hostile to the traditional politics of the old parties; but the hostility is futile, and will be recuperated, so long as it is based on ignorance of the political system and naive illusions about the world situation.
1996 G. McKay Senseless Acts of Beauty 73 It looked like things were being made safe again, opposition was being channelled and recuperated, rebellion commodified.
2010 Fifth Estate Summer 33/1 Even the word ‘revolution’, which once sent shivers down the spines of a fragile bourgeoisie.., has been recuperated.
Derivatives
reˈcuperating adj.
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1847 Ladies' Repository Aug. 243/1 The mingling of races and nations, as it takes place in this country, may have a healthful and recuperating influence upon human blood and intellect.
1979 B. Parvin Deadly Dyke xxiv. 128 Recuperating firemen stood watching the thick palls of smoke.
1991 A. Chaudhuri Strange & Sublime Addr. (1992) xiv. 123 Every evening, in the garden, recuperating patients were taken around in wheelchairs by their nurses, or allowed to take gentle walks, with the firm and cautious hand of a nurse on the shoulder.
reˈcuperating n.
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1650 Mercurius Politicus No. 18 307 It's supposed the Spaniard may improve this opportunity of visiting France, to a re-investing of that Duke, and a recuperating of at last part of his owne in Flanders.
1894 ‘R. Andom’ We Three & Troddles xix. 174 We each mentioned our favoured recuperating localities.
1955 Amer. Sociol. Rev. 20 535/1 Nurses help donors walk to the recuperating room.
2004 B. R. Singh et al. in R. Lal et al. Sustainable Agric. & Internat. Rice-Wheat Syst. xix. 331 Empowerment of rural communities may not only contribute to combating soil degradation but also to recuperating of degraded soils.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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