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• v  regain or make up for
  recuperate one's losses
• v  regain a former condition after a financial loss
  The company managed to recuperate
• v  restore to good health or strength
• v  get over an illness or shock

• To prove it, he puts Wesley through a punishing initiation that involves getting smacked around, slashed open and, to recuperate, lying in a tub of goo.
• Saint Laurent suffered dramatic health problems, often retreating to his home in Marrakesh for months to recuperate from nervous and physical exhaustion.
• She needs time to recuperate and, frankly, to study up on the issues.

• recover
• recoup
• go back
• convalesce

• deteriorate

News & Articles

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• 50 Cent Presents An Impressive Hartford Boxing Card
  HARTFORD – Mike Oliver’s last bout was 20 months ago in Puerto Rico, a loss to Juan Manuel Lopez on a technical knockout in the second round. Oliver, a Hartford featherweight, needed time to recuperate from that fight. He rested …
  June 13, 2013 - FOX CT Hartford
• NEW ALBANY BICENTENNIAL: Michael C. Kerr
  Drapery was hung and flags lowered as life in New Albany came to a standstill on a Friday afternoon in August of 1876. Michael C. Kerr, speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives and resident of the river town, had died only days before of tuberculosis at a spa in West Virginia, a place he had traveled to recuperate from his lengthy illness.
  June 12, 2013 - Evening News and Tribune

Quotes

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• Carlos Lage in TIME
  Fidel continues to recuperate. It's a productive recuperation as we can see in the press,said Lage, apparently referring to the publication in state newspapers of Castro's "Reflections of the Commander in Chief."
• Luiz Felipe Scolari in Sportinglife.com
  I am satisfied because we played very well,Scolari said. "For me it is the most important game this season because if we won we were in first position in the league and now we have 10 days to recuperate our players through the...
• Paul Pierce in ESPN
  I think these next two days are great,Pierce said. "I'm feeling kind of sore, kind of tweaked my knee tonight. Rajon is hurting, Perkins hurt his shoulder. So I think these two days will be great for us to recuperate from our minor...