bounce back
— phrasal verb with bounce uk/baʊns/us/baʊns/verb
C1 to start to be successful again after a difficult period, for example after experiencing failure, loss of confidence, illness, or unhappiness:
Stock prices bounced back after a steep plunge earlier this week.
Children often seem to bounce back from illness more quickly than adults do.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Recovering from illness
- be on the mend idiom
- bounce
- clear (sth) up
- come round
- convalescence
- convalescent
- correct
- corrective
- feel like a new woman/man idiom
- get over sth/sb
- heal
- hold
- lacunar
- mend
- new
- pull
- rehab
- rehabilitation
- rose
- throw sth off
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