Definition of recover

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Recover (v. t.) To gain by motion or effort; to obtain; to reach; to come to.

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Recover :: Recover (v. t.) To gain as a compensation; to obtain in return for injury or debt; as, to recover damages in trespass; to recover debt and costs in a suit at law; to obtain title to by judgement in a court of law; as, to recover lands in ejectment or common recovery; to gain by legal process; as, to recover judgement against a defendant..
Wind :: Wind (v. t.) To rest, as a horse, in order to allow the breath to be recovered; to breathe..
Recuperate :: Recuperate (v. t.) To recover; to regain; as, to recuperate the health or strength..
Gavelet :: Gavelet (n.) An ancient special kind of cessavit used in Kent and London for the recovery of rent.
Elasticity :: Elasticity (n.) Power of resistance to, or recovery from, depression or overwork..
Resiliency :: Resiliency (n.) The mechanical work required to strain an elastic body, as a deflected beam, stretched spring, etc., to the elastic limit; also, the work performed by the body in recovering from such strain..
Reclaim :: Reclaim (n.) The act of reclaiming, or the state of being reclaimed; reclamation; recovery..
Canceleer :: Canceleer (n.) The turn of a hawk upon the wing to recover herself, when she misses her aim in the stoop..
Overget :: Overget (v. t.) To get beyond; to get over or recover from.
Suit :: Suit (n.) The attempt to gain an end by legal process; an action or process for the recovery of a right or claim; legal application to a court for justice; prosecution of right before any tribunal; as, a civil suit; a criminal suit; a suit in chancery..
Ejectment :: Ejectment (n.) A species of mixed action, which lies for the recovery of possession of real property, and damages and costs for the wrongful withholding of it..
Inning :: Inning (n.) Lands recovered from the sea.
Crisis :: Crisis (n.) That change in a disease which indicates whether the result is to be recovery or death; sometimes, also, a striking change of symptoms attended by an outward manifestation, as by an eruption or sweat..
Analepsy :: Analepsy () Recovery of strength after sickness.
Recuperatory :: Recuperatory (a.) Of or pertaining to recuperation; tending to recovery.
Recoveree :: Recoveree (n.) The person against whom a judgment is obtained in common recovery.
Recovery :: Recovery (n.) The obtaining in a suit at law of a right to something by a verdict and judgment of court.
Irrecoverable :: Irrecoverable (a.) Not capable of being recovered, regained, or remedied; irreparable; as, an irrecoverable loss, debt, or injury..
Chapel :: Chapel (v. t.) To cause (a ship taken aback in a light breeze) so to turn or make a circuit as to recover, without bracing the yards, the same tack on which she had been sailing..
Warish :: Warish (v. i.) To be cured; to recover.
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