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It takes most men five years to recover from a college education, and to learn that poetry is as vital to thinking as knowledge.
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Meaning of "recover" in the English dictionary

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD RECOVER

From Old French recoverer, from Latin recuperārerecuperate.
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PRONUNCIATION OF RECOVER

recover  [rɪˈkʌvə] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF RECOVER

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Recover is a verb.
The verb is the part of the sentence that is conjugated and expresses action and state of being.

See the conjugation of the verb recover in English.

WHAT DOES RECOVER MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of recover in the English dictionary

The first definition of recover in the dictionary is to find again or obtain the return of. Other definition of recover is to regain ; recoup. Recover is also to regain, as after illness, a setback, or a shock, etc.


CONJUGATION OF THE VERB TO RECOVER

PRESENT

Present
I recover
you recover
he/she/it recovers
we recover
you recover
they recover
Present continuous
I am recovering
you are recovering
he/she/it is recovering
we are recovering
you are recovering
they are recovering
Present perfect
I have recovered
you have recovered
he/she/it has recovered
we have recovered
you have recovered
they have recovered
Present perfect continuous
I have been recovering
you have been recovering
he/she/it has been recovering
we have been recovering
you have been recovering
they have been recovering
Present tense is used to refer to circumstances that exist at the present time or over a period that includes the present time. The present perfect refers to past events, although it can be considered to denote primarily the resulting present situation rather than the events themselves.

PAST

Past
I recovered
you recovered
he/she/it recovered
we recovered
you recovered
they recovered
Past continuous
I was recovering
you were recovering
he/she/it was recovering
we were recovering
you were recovering
they were recovering
Past perfect
I had recovered
you had recovered
he/she/it had recovered
we had recovered
you had recovered
they had recovered
Past perfect continuous
I had been recovering
you had been recovering
he/she/it had been recovering
we had been recovering
you had been recovering
they had been recovering
Past tense forms express circumstances existing at some time in the past,

FUTURE

Future
I will recover
you will recover
he/she/it will recover
we will recover
you will recover
they will recover
Future continuous
I will be recovering
you will be recovering
he/she/it will be recovering
we will be recovering
you will be recovering
they will be recovering
Future perfect
I will have recovered
you will have recovered
he/she/it will have recovered
we will have recovered
you will have recovered
they will have recovered
Future perfect continuous
I will have been recovering
you will have been recovering
he/she/it will have been recovering
we will have been recovering
you will have been recovering
they will have been recovering
The future is used to express circumstances that will occur at a later time.

CONDITIONAL

Conditional
I would recover
you would recover
he/she/it would recover
we would recover
you would recover
they would recover
Conditional continuous
I would be recovering
you would be recovering
he/she/it would be recovering
we would be recovering
you would be recovering
they would be recovering
Conditional perfect
I would have recover
you would have recover
he/she/it would have recover
we would have recover
you would have recover
they would have recover
Conditional perfect continuous
I would have been recovering
you would have been recovering
he/she/it would have been recovering
we would have been recovering
you would have been recovering
they would have been recovering
Conditional or "future-in-the-past" tense refers to hypothetical or possible actions.

IMPERATIVE

Imperative
you recover
we let´s recover
you recover
The imperative is used to form commands or requests.
NONFINITE VERB FORMS
Infinitive
to recover
Past participle
recovered
Present Participle
recovering
Infinitive shows the action beyond temporal perspective. The present participle or gerund shows the action during the session. The past participle shows the action after completion.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH RECOVER


bedcover
ˈbɛdkʌvə
codiscover
ˌkəʊdɪˈskʌvə
cover
ˈkʌvə
discover
dɪˈskʌvə
hardcover
ˈhɑːdˌkʌvə
overcover
ˈəʊvəˌkʌvə
re-cover
riːˈkʌvə
rediscover
ˌriːdɪˈskʌvə
slipcover
ˈslɪpˌkʌvə
supercover
ˈsuːpəˌkʌvə
uncover
ʌnˈkʌvə
undercover
ˌʌndəˈkʌvə

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE RECOVER

recourse
recoverability
recoverable
recoverableness
recovered
recovered memory
recoveree
recoverer
recoveries
recovering
recoveror
recovery
recovery operation
recovery position
recovery room
recovery ship
recovery stock
recovery team
recovery vehicle
recovery vessel

WORDS THAT END LIKE RECOVER

air cover
album cover
back cover
book cover
breakdown cover
cloud cover
cushion cover
cut-and-cover
dust cover
duvet cover
extra cover
ground cover
manhole cover
mattress cover
on cover
over
seat cover
soft-cover
take cover
tonneau cover
under cover

Synonyms and antonyms of recover in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «RECOVER»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «recover» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of recover

Translation of «recover» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF RECOVER

Find out the translation of recover to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of recover from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «recover» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

恢复
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

recuperar
570 millions of speakers

English

recover
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

की वसूली
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

يَشْفى
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

возвращать
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

recuperar-se
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

পুনরুদ্ধার
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

se remettre
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Pulih
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

erholen (sich)
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

回復する
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

회복하다
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Waras
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

hồi phục
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

மீட்க
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

पुनर्प्राप्त करा
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

kurtarmak
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

guarire
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

odzyskać
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

одужувати
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

a se recupera
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

συνέρχομαι
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

herstel
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

tillfriskna
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

friskne til
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of recover

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «RECOVER»

The term «recover» is very widely used and occupies the 8.659 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «RECOVER» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «recover» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «recover» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about recover

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10 QUOTES WITH «RECOVER»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word recover.
1
Brooks Atkinson
It takes most men five years to recover from a college education, and to learn that poetry is as vital to thinking as knowledge.
2
Beryl Bainbridge
Everything else you grow out of, but you never recover from childhood.
3
Ralph Bakshi
Animation is tremendously resilient. Animation will recover, as art always recovers. There's always cycles of good art.
4
David Beckham
I don't regret the decision to retire. My body was losing its edge. I was taking longer to recover from injuries. You have to get out at some point.
5
David Blaine
As a kid I used to hold my breath longer than anybody else, and then I heard stories about people accidently underwater for 45 minutes - how do you recover from that? It's not a miracle. Something allows us to survive.
6
Joseph Campbell
It is by going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures of life. Where you stumble, there lies your treasure.
7
Henry Chadwick
The Nationals tried hard to recover the lost ground. The final result, however, was the success of the Forest Citys by a score of 29 to 23 in a nine innings game, twice interrupted by rain.
8
David Chipperfield
It's unfortunate that a certain type of stripped-down classicism became the in-house architectural language for 20th-century fascism. Can an architectural language recover from such an association? Yes, I think it can, because in the end what you're talking about is a column and beam.
9
Alice Cooper
Mistakes are part of the game. It's how well you recover from them, that's the mark of a great player.
10
Daniel Dennett
In short, we need to recover the courage we celebrate in our heroes, and in particular, the courage to tolerate, for the sake of a free society, a level of risk we hardly ever imagined in the past.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «RECOVER»

Discover the use of recover in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to recover and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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The Resilient City: How Modern Cities Recover from Disaster
Revealing how traumatized city-dwellers consistently develop narratives of resilience and how the pragmatic process of urban recovery is always fueled by highly symbolic actions, The resilient city offers an informative tribute to the ...
Lawrence J. Vale, Thomas J. Campanella, 2005
2
Helping Men Recover: A Man's Workbook
It contains exercises for use in group sessions, summaries of information presented from the facilitator's guide, and reflection questions and activities for use after group sessions.
Stephanie S. Covington, Dan Griffin, Rick Dauer, 2011
3
Recover!: Stop Thinking Like an Addict and Reclaim Your Life ...
Outlines a holistic program for addicts and their families based on evidence-based treatments, CBT, and meditation, rejecting conventional beliefs and programs to explain how to permanently overcome self-destructive compulsions.
Stanton Peele, 2014
4
Addiction and Change: How Addictions Develop and Addicted ...
From Carlo C. DiClemente, codeveloper of the transtheoretical model, this book offers a panoramic view of the entire continuum of addictive behavior change.
Carlo C. DiClemente, 2003
5
Reversing Multiple Sclerosis: 9 Effective Steps to Recover ...
"I truly believe that if you diligently apply these healing protocols, which I have learned, you will no longer be known as an 'MS victim,'" says Dr. Pepe.
Celeste Pepe, Lisa Hammond, 2001
6
Helping Your Chemically Dependent Teenager Recover: A Guide ...
This book provides a step-by-step guide on how to do it. Helping Your Chemically Dependent Teenager Recover Describes teenage recovery as a slow but steady process of growth and change unique to the developing adolescent.
Peter R. Cohen, 1991
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Soldier Dead: How We Recover, Identify, Bury, and Honor Our ...
Soldier Dead is the first book to fully address the complicated physical, social, religious, economic, and political issues concerning the remains of men and women who die while serving their country.
Michael Sledge, 2013
8
Dance, Recover, Repeat
Brandishing a unique, comic worldview, Alasdair Duncan assembles a surprising, devastating narrative using dialogue, emails, Internet chats, fantasies, notebook entries, blips from video games, and more.
Alasdair Duncan, 2007
9
Discover & Recover
Discover & Recover will help to: [Eliminate insecurities, guilt, and painful issues of the past [Bring you into right relationship with God and to be filled with His power [Bring freedom from addictions and bad habits [Understand yourself ...
Dale Allen, 2008
10
Recover to Live: Kick Any Habit, Manage Any Addiction - Your ...
Traces the author's personal battles with addiction, profiling effective self-care treatments for seven primary addictions to counsel readers on how to determine dependency levels, identify treatment options, and transition to a productive ...
Christopher Kennedy Lawford, 2013

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «RECOVER»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term recover is used in the context of the following news items.
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EU Orders France to Recover State Aid From EDF
BRUSSELS—European Union regulators ordered France to recover €1.37 billion ($1.5 billion) in state funds from Electricite de France SA EDF -0.90 % after ... «Wall Street Journal, Jul 15»
2
Motorola Solutions Could See Business Recover
The company's North American business, at least, looks to be recovering and is on track to have a good year. Revenue rose 6% in the first quarter, ... «Barron's, Jul 15»
3
Chinese Markets Continue to Recover, but Uncertainty Remains
Those analysts who suggest the panic could be over are keen to cite Beijing's interventions in the markets as the catalyst for the recovery; others are more ... «TIME, Jul 15»
4
How To Recover From Career Burnout
Regardless of how you got burnt out, you can recover. Here are five things you can do to recover from career burnout: Take a Break. One of the first things I did ... «Forbes, Jun 15»
5
Jeb Bush Works to Recover From a Shaky Start
WASHINGTON — Jeb Bush had a plan for the last six months he spent as an unannounced candidate for president. He would raise tens of millions of dollars, ... «New York Times, Jun 15»
6
Lewis Hamilton: Mercedes driver will recover - Toto Wolff
"It must be very sore to lose that one because it was his to win but I have no doubt he will recover as quickly as he always does." Hamilton, who has won three of ... «BBC Sport, May 15»
7
Can Labour recover? And if so – how?
'Ed Miliband had hoped to defy his consistently dreadful personal ratings in all public surveys by airing the public's concerns.' Photograph: Christopher ... «The Guardian, May 15»
8
Prices for Private Residence Clubs Slow to Recover
SEVEN years after prices for private residence clubs and other fractional developments collapsed, the value of a small slice of paradise is still far from recovered. «New York Times, May 15»
9
Read and Recover: An athletes guide to Achilles tendon injuries
This is the fifth in a series of sports medicine articles from the world-renowned Rothman Institute. Series Editors are Rothman doctors Richard H. Rothman MD, ... «SI.com, Apr 15»
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The Dreaded ACL Tear – and How to Recover
It was an away basketball game, and just as well that Abby Navarro's parents weren't in the stands. Navarro, then 16 and a forward for Lawton High School in ... «U.S. News & World Report, Apr 15»

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