- convalescent, recovering - returning to health after illness or debility; "convalescent children are difficult to keep in bed"
Antonym: well (indirect, via ill)
- recover, retrieve, find, regain - get or find back; recover the use of; "She regained control of herself"; "She found her voice and replied quickly"
--1 is one way to get, acquire
Sample sentences:Derived forms: noun recoverer1, noun recovery3
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s something from somebody
- recuperate, recover, convalesce - get over an illness or shock; "The patient is recuperating"
--2 is one way to better, improve, ameliorate, meliorate
Sample sentence:Derived form: noun recovery2
Somebody ----s
- recover, go back, recuperate - regain a former condition after a financial loss; "We expect the stocks to recover to $2.90"; "The company managed to recuperate"
--3 is one way to revert, return, retrovert, regress, turn back
Sample sentences:Derived form: noun recovery1
Something ----s
Somebody ----s
Something is ----ing PP
- recover, recoup, recuperate - regain or make up for; "recuperate one's losses"
--4 is one way to get, acquire
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something
- reclaim, recover - of materials from waste products
--5 is one way to recycle, reprocess, reuse
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something
- recover - cover anew; "recover a chair"
--6 is one way to cover
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Somebody ----s something