Definition of recover

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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..

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Unproselyte :: Unproselyte (v. t.) To convert or recover from the state of a proselyte.
Recoveree :: Recoveree (n.) The person against whom a judgment is obtained in common recovery.
Resuscitate :: Resuscitate (v. t.) To revivify; to revive; especially, to recover or restore from apparent death; as, to resuscitate a drowned person; to resuscitate withered plants..
Retriever :: Retriever (n.) A dor, or a breed of dogs, chiefly employed to retrieve, or to find and recover game birds that have been killed or wounded..
Recovered :: Recovered (imp. & p. p.) of Recove.
Vouchee :: Vouchee (n.) The person who is vouched, or called into court to support or make good his warranty of title in the process of common recovery..
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..
Analepsy :: Analepsy () Recovery of strength after sickness.
Decumbiture :: Decumbiture (n.) Aspect of the heavens at the time of taking to one's sick bed, by which the prognostics of recovery or death were made..
Escheat :: Escheat (n.) A writ, now abolished, to recover escheats from the person in possession..
Recovery :: Recovery (n.) The act of recovering, regaining, or retaking possession..
Recovery :: Recovery (n.) The getting, or gaining, of something not previously had..
Wind :: Wind (v. t.) To rest, as a horse, in order to allow the breath to be recovered; to breathe..
Restoration :: Restoration (n.) The state of being restored; recovery of health, strength, etc.; as, restoration from sickness..
Recure :: Recure (n.) Cure; remedy; recovery.
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..
Recover :: Recover (v. i.) To make one's way; to come; to arrive.
Bloodhound :: Bloodhound (n.) A breed of large and powerful dogs, with long, smooth, and pendulous ears, and remarkable for acuteness of smell. It is employed to recover game or prey which has escaped wounded from a hunter, and for tracking criminals. Formerly it was used for pursuing runaway slaves. Other varieties of dog are often used for the same purpose and go by the same name. The Cuban bloodhound is said to be a variety of the mastiff..
Recuperable :: Recuperable (a.) Recoverable.
Scrofula :: Scrofula (n.) A constitutional disease, generally hereditary, especially manifested by chronic enlargement and cheesy degeneration of the lymphatic glands, particularly those of the neck, and marked by a tendency to the development of chronic intractable inflammations of the skin, mucous membrane, bones, joints, and other parts, and by a diminution in the power of resistance to disease or injury and the capacity for recovery. Scrofula is now generally held to be tuberculous in character, and may
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