Word Finder - recover

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Recovery.

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A position of holding a firearm during exercises, whereby the lock is at shoulder height and the sling facing out.

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The forward movement in rowing, after one stroke to take another (recovery)

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To get back, to regain (a physical thing; in astronomy and navigation, sight of a thing or a signal).

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After days of inquiries, he finally recovered his lost wallet.

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To salvage, to extricate, to rescue (a thing or person)

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They recovered three of the explorers very much alive, then another, wracked with severe hypothermia, who was taken to hospital.

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To replenish to, resume (a good state of mind or body).

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At the top of the hill I asked to stop for a few minutes to recover my strength.

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To obtain a positive judgement; to win in a lawsuit.

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The plaintiff recovered in his suit, being awarded declaratory relief and a clearing of his name.

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To gain as compensation or reparation, usually by formal legal process

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to recover damages in trespass; to recover debt and costs in a legal action or that is owing

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To reach (a place), arrive at.

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To restore to good health, consciousness, life etc.

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To make good by reparation; to make up for; to retrieve; to repair the loss or injury of.

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to recover lost time

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To get better, to regain health or prosperity

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I lost out in the deal, but I quickly recovered financially

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To regain one's composure, balance etc.

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Spinning round, he caught a stone with his ankle, but recovered quickly before turning to face me.

She nodded, trying hard to recover from the latest surprise.

That army could not recover anywhere.

The doctor says he should recover completely, though.

I think you need some rest to recover from last night.

So gold isn't scarce—only the gold we know how to recover is scarce.

The " Great Eastern " was again employed, and leaving the south-west coast of Ireland on the 13th of July she reached Trinity Bay a fortnight later, without serious mishap. She then steamed eastwards again, and on the 13th of August made her first attempt to recover the lost cable.

Pierre gradually began to recover himself and looked about at the room and at the people in it.

As a speaker Mill was somewhat hesitating, pausing occasionally as if to recover the thread of his argument, but he showed great readiness in extemporaneous debate.

In 289 Maximian attempted to recover the island, but his fleet was damaged by a storm and he was defeated.

He'd been drawn to Jenn since he'd started to recover his mind.

Young cats recover farquicker from the surgery than older animals.

Bad things happen and when they do, you may feel like you will never be able to recover from it.

A rebellion among his nobles robbed him of his native kingdom, and while marching to recover it his troops deserted him, and he lost Samarkand also.

This was a blow from which he did not recover.

After the captivity and death of Valerian, Gallienus succeeded to a merely nominal rule in the East, and was too careless and self-indulgent to take any active measures to recover the lost provinces.

Gregory listened to the appeal; he projected - not, indeed, as has often been said, a crusade,' but a great expedition, which should recover ' Tradition credits a pope still earlier than Gregory VII.

Richard soon followed; but while Philip sailed straight for Acre, Richard occupied himself by the way in conquering Cyprus - partly out of knight-errantry, and in order to avenge an insult offered to his betrothed wife Berengaria by the despot of the island, partly perhaps out of policy, and in order to provide a basis of supplies and of operations for the armies attempting to recover Palestine.

He sailed back to Otranto in order to recover his health, but the new pope, Gregory IX., launched in hot anger the bolt of excommunication, in the belief that Frederick was malingering once more.

Fields of wheat and other cereals rarely recover after a week's submergence, but orchards and many trees when at rest in winter withstand a flooded or water-logged condition of the soil for two or three weeks without damage.

An unsuccessful attempt to recover it was made in 1701.

But at the end of that time people began to recover themselves.

The reign of Cleomenes is marked also by a determined effort to cope with the rising power of the Achaean League and to recover for Sparta her long-lost supremacy in the Peloponnese, and even throughout Greece.

Mademoiselle Bourienne was the first to recover herself after this apparition and began speaking about the prince's indisposition.

Since teens recover and grow at different rates, this is an important factor in any therapeutic relationship.

The attempt to recover Dalmatia, which involved Bela in two bloody wars with Venice (1181-88 and 1190-91), was only partially successful.

Henry at once sailed for England, and landing in Yorkshire while King Richard was in Ireland, gave out that he came only to recover his inheritance.

In cases which recover the convulsions diminish in severity, leaving the patient exhausted.

Shortly afterwards Alexius made an effort in conjunction with Murtzuphlos (Alexius V.) to recover the throne.

As plenipotentiary in 224 he called in Antigonus Doson of Macedonia, and helped to recover Corinth and Argos and to crush Cleomenes at Sellasia, but at the same time sacrificed the independence of the league.

His first step was to recover control of the mint, and place it in the hands of capable middle-class merchants and bankers, like Caspar Beer, Jan Thurzo, Jan Boner, the Betmans, exiles for conscience' sake from Alsace, who had sought refuge in Poland under Casimir IV., Justus Decyusz, subsequently the king's secretary and historian, and their fellows, all practical economists of high integrity who reformed the currency and opened out new ways for trade and commerce.

But his pretensions were ludicrous; he was quickly captured by the Chileans and sent back to France (1862) as a madman; and though he made one more abortive effort in 1874 to recover his "kingdom," and occupied his pen in magnifying his achievements, nobody took him seriously except a few of the deluded Indians.

If a tenant quits leaving tithe unpaid, the landlord may pay it and recover it from him.

The tithe-owner cannot recover damages from the tithe-payer for not cultivating the land.

The exile of his son Henry in 1398 was a blow from which he did not recover.

When Ahaziah, the son of Ahab, having injured himself by falling through a lattice, sent to inquire of Baal-zebub, the god of Ekron, whether he should recover, the prophet was commanded to appear to the messengers and tell them that, for this resort to a false god, the king should die.

In some cases it has even been possible to recover the original arrangement of the garden beds, and to replant them accordingly, thus giving an appropriate framework to the statues, &c. with which the gardens were decorated, and which have been found in situ.

Anxious to recover the city for France, Louis XI.

Germanicus Caesar, during his tenure of the command of the Roman armies on the Rhine, made repeated attempts to recover the Roman position in northern Germany and exact vengeance for the death of Varus, but without real success, and after his recall the Rhine formed for the greater part of its course the boundary of the Empire.

This alone would have shaken their authority, for, during their absence, the great vassals seized rights which were afterwards difficult to recover.

The Saxon elector gained some additions of territory and promised to assist Ferdinand to recover any lands which had been taken from him by the Swedes, or by other foes.

Finding some support in Austria, Rudolph questioned the title of the Bohemian king to the three duchies, and sought to recover the imperial lands which had been in the possession of the emperor Frederick II.

So far as Austria was concerned, the Seven Years' War in which France and Austria were ranged against Prussia and Great Britain, was an attempt on the part of Maria Theresa to recover Silesia.

The skilful diplomacy of Metternich, who was now at the head of the Austrian government, enabled Austria to take full advantage of the situation created by the disaster to Napoleon's arms. His object was to recover Austria's lost possessions and if possible to add to them, a policy which did not necessarily involve the complete overthrow of the French emperor.

We do not know how far there was a real intention to revenge Kiiniggratz and recover the position lost in Germany.

The Spartan fleet arrived too late and departed without attempting to recover the town.

Tradition, mythology and later customs make it possible to recover a scrap of the political history of that far-off time.

Psammetichus died in the fifty-fourth year of his reign and was succeeded by his son Necho, 610594 B.C. Taking advantage of the helpless state of the Assyrians, whose capital was assailed by the Medes and the Babylonians, the new Pharaoh prepared an expedition to recover the ancient possessions of the Empire in Syria.

Abd alMalik, the country suffered from famine, and under this ruler it was unable to recover.

Tahir, who in 827 was sent to recover Alexandria, which for some ten years had been held by exiles from Spain.

He was succeeded by his son Khomarflya, then twenty years of age, who immediately after his accession had to deal with an attempt on the part of the caliph to recover Syria; this attempt failed chiefly through dissensions between the caliphs officers, but partly through the ability of Khomgruyas general, who succeeded in winning a battle after his master had run away from the field.