Definition of recover

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Recover (v. i.) To regain health after sickness; to grow well; to be restored or cured; hence, to regain a former state or condition after misfortune, alarm, etc.; -- often followed by of or from; as, to recover from a state of poverty; to recover from fright..

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Irrecuperable :: Irrecuperable (a.) Irrecoverable.
Revive :: Revive (v. i.) Hence, to recover from a state of neglect or disuse; as, to revive letters or learning..
Overget :: Overget (v. t.) To get beyond; to get over or recover from.
Recoverer :: Recoverer (n.) One who recovers.
Valetudinarian :: Valetudinarian (a.) Of infirm health; seeking to recover health; sickly; weakly; infirm.
Creep :: Creep (v. i.) To drag in deep water with creepers, as for recovering a submarine cable..
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..
Post-disseizin :: Post-disseizin (n.) A subsequent disseizin committed by one of lands which the disseizee had before recovered of the same disseizor; a writ founded on such subsequent disseizin, now abolished..
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..
Assumpsit :: Assumpsit (n.) An action to recover damages for a breach or nonperformance of a contract or promise, express or implied, oral or in writing not under seal. Common or indebitatus assumpsit is brought for the most part on an implied promise. Special assumpsit is founded on an express promise or undertaking..
Crusade :: Crusade (n.) Any one of the military expeditions undertaken by Christian powers, in the 11th, 12th, and 13th centuries, for the recovery of the Holy Land from the Mohammedans..
Unmonopolize :: Unmonopolize (v. t.) To recover or release from the state of being monopolized.
Recuperable :: Recuperable (a.) Recoverable.
Lost :: Lost (v. t.) Hardened beyond sensibility or recovery; alienated; insensible; as, lost to shame; lost to all sense of honor..
Recover :: Recover (v. t.) To rescue; to deliver.
Elasticity :: Elasticity (n.) Power of resistance to, or recovery from, depression or overwork..
Reclaim :: Reclaim (n.) The act of reclaiming, or the state of being reclaimed; reclamation; recovery..
Remedy :: Remedy (n.) The legal means to recover a right, or to obtain redress for a wrong..
Recover :: Recover (v. t.) To get or obtain again; to get renewed possession of; to win back; to regain.
Audita Querela :: Audita querela () A writ which lies for a party against whom judgment is recovered, but to whom good matter of discharge has subsequently accrued which could not have been availed of to prevent such judgment..
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