recuperate

Meanings

1. To recover, especially from an illness; to get better from an illness or from exhaustion (or sometimes from a financial loss, etc).
2. To restore (someone or something) to health, strength, or currency; to revive or rehabilitate.
3. To recover; to regain.
4. To co-opt (a problematic or suspect idea) so that it becomes part of an accepted discourse; to reclaim.

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin recuperāre, alternative form of reciperāre (“get again, regain, recover”). Doublet of recover. The pronunciation without /j/ may have been influenced by the semantically similar, but etymologically distinct verb recoup.

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