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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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..
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 gain by motion or effort; to obtain; to reach; to come to.
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..
Revalescent :: Revalescent (a.) Growing well; recovering strength.
Finally :: Finally (adv.) Completely; beyond 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..
Escheat :: Escheat (n.) A writ, now abolished, to recover escheats from the person in possession..
Cosinage :: Cosinage (n.) A writ to recover possession of an estate in lands, when a stranger has entered, after the death of the grandfather's grandfather, or other distant collateral relation..
Recuperate :: Recuperate (v. t.) To recover; to regain; as, to recuperate the health or strength..
Recover :: Recover (v. i.) To obtain a judgement; to succeed in a lawsuit; as, the plaintiff has recovered in his suit..
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..
Reclaim :: Reclaim (v. t.) To claim back; to demand the return of as a right; to attempt to recover possession of.
Voucher :: Voucher (n.) The tenant in a writ of right; one who calls in another to establish his warranty of title. In common recoveries, there may be a single voucher or double vouchers..
Eviction :: Eviction (n.) The act or process of evicting; or state of being evicted; the recovery of lands, tenements, etc., from another's possession by due course of law; dispossession by paramount title or claim of such title; ejectment; ouster..
Canceleer :: Canceleer (n.) The turn of a hawk upon the wing to recover herself, when she misses her aim in the stoop..
Wind :: Wind (v. t.) To rest, as a horse, in order to allow the breath to be recovered; to breathe..
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..
Overget :: Overget (v. t.) To get beyond; to get over or recover from.
Recover :: 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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