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# recover

«recover» in Mova's school dictionary: **to get well again after an illness or injury** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

verb (recover, recovers, recovered, recovering); noun recovery

### meaning for a pupil

1) To recover means to get well again after an illness or injury. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/recover/#m1)

2) To recover means to get back something that was lost or stolen. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/recover/#m2)

3) To recover from a shock or bad event means to feel normal again. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/recover/#m3)

4) To recover can mean to get back into a good position, as in a game. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/recover/#m4)

### sense in the lessons

Health and science: the body recovers with rest, food, water and sometimes medicine. Stories: the hero recovers the stolen treasure. Sport: a team recovers after a bad start. Phrases: recover from, fully recover, recover quickly, make a full recovery.

### examples

- Grandpa is recovering from his operation. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/recover/#x1)
- The police recovered the stolen bike. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/recover/#x2)
- It took me a week to recover from the flu. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/recover/#x3)
- The team recovered and won the match. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/recover/#x4)
- She quickly recovered from the shock. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/recover/#x5)
- Drink plenty of water to help you recover. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/recover/#x6)
- I am afraid that he will never recover.” [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/recover/#x7)

### note

Regular verb: recovered. «Recover from» something. Not the same as «re-cover» (with a hyphen), which means to cover again: «re-cover the chair».

### In the corpora

- [American alligators live in swamps, rivers and lakes in the south-eastern USA and recovered from being endangered once hunting was controlled.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/29-crocodiles-and-alligators/15/)
- [Some hyphens stop two different words from looking the same: re-cover (cover again) and recover (get better).](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/36-brackets-dashes-colons-semicolons-and-hyphens/13/)
- ["In recovery" means recovering from an addiction, such as to alcohol or drugs, and staying off it.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/5-drink-mind-and-body/7/)
- [Golden ages end too: the An Lushan rebellion of 755 shook the Tang so hard that it never fully recovered.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/54-china-the-silk-road-and-the-tang/7/)
- [After weeks in a cast the muscles are smaller and the joints stiff, and they recover over a few weeks.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/2-the-cast-itching-signing-and-the-saw/13/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «recover» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/recover/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.