Word Finder - recovered

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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.

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To cover again.

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(roofing) To add a new roof membrane or steep-slope covering over an existing one.

My wife quickly recovered and smiled.

Before she recovered from the shock, the man knocked the phone from her hand and grabbed her arm, jerking her toward him.

Brady recovered his balance, once again amazed at just how weak his body was.

Until she recovered, he was content to feed her.

Reaching the lake, he tossed the souls he'd recovered from the demons into it and lingered.

She recovered herself and wiped her tears, gazing around one last time.

Finally he had fully recovered – or at least it appeared so.

I read in the paper today they recovered another child and arrested the stupid abductor.

He must be recovered and brought back to Russia at all hazards.

In 404 it was restored to the Locrians, who subsequently lost it to the Achaeans, but recovered it through Epaminondas.

The ambassador recovered, but Descartes fell a victim to the same disease, inflammation of the lungs.

In 1415 it was recovered by the Turks under Mahommed I., and since that period has belonged to the Ottoman empire.

Destroyed by barbarian invaders in the 7th century the town recovered its importance only in comparatively modern times.

It gave the naval power of the Turks a blow from which it never recovered, and put a stop to their aggression in the Eastern Mediterranean.

At the end of the war, Caesar bestowed upon Bocchus part of the territory of Massinissa, Juba's ally, which was recovered after Caesar's murder by Massinissa's son Arabion.

Cyprus was recovered, but only retained for seven years.

When Dorothy recovered her senses they were still falling, but not so fast.

Maybe Alex would have recovered more quickly if he had been there from the start.

Polished shoes, with the socks still in them and a shirt, recovered from the beach, rested on a chair.

The fact that the two components can be recovered from the compound by destroying it does not decide the question.

The Picts and Britons now recovered their independence; for Aldfrith, apparently an illegitimate son of Oswio, who succeeded, made no attempt to reconquer them.

By his beloved consort Ulrica Leonora of Denmark, from the shock of whose death in July 1693 he never recovered, he had seven children, of whom only three survived him, a son Charles, and two daughters, Hedwig Sophia, duchess of Holstein, and Ulrica Leonora, who ultimately succeeded her brother on the Swedish throne.

The ship's rudder, which was recovered in 1859, has been fashioned into a chair and a table, now in the possession of Lloyd's.

But he recovered, scoffed at himself as usual, and prepared more eagerly than ever for the first performance of Irene, on the 16th of March.

In 774 the little settlement was taken and burnt by the Saxons; but it evidently soon recovered from the blow.

Its fortifications were greatly strengthened; nevertheless it was twice taken by the Imperialists and twice recovered by the French during the Spanish Succession War.

Captured by the English in 1418 after a four months' siege, it was recovered by Charles VII.

Even the material benefits accruing from the union with Sardinia and the constitutional liberty accorded to all his subjects by King Charles Albert were unable to prevent the republican outbreak of 1848, when, after a short and sharp struggle, the city, momentarily seized by the republican party, was recovered by General Alfonzo La Marmora.

Soon after his election as king of the Romans in 1486, Maximilian attacked the Hungarians, and in 1490 he had driven them from Austria, and recovered his hereditary lands.

If this raises the presumption that even the oldest and most isolated biblical evidence may rest upon still older authority, it shows also that the fuller details and context cannot be confidently recovered, and that earlier forms would accord with earlier Palestinian belief.'

During the smallpox epidemic of 1721 he attempted in vain to have treatment by inoculation employed, for the first time in America; and for this he was bitterly attacked on all sides, and his life was at one time in danger; but, nevertheless, he used the treatment on his son, who recovered, and he wrote An Account of the Method and further Success of Inoculating for the Small Pox in London (r 721).

C. Hanson, editor of the Baltimore Federal Republican, which had opposed the war, received grave injuries, from which he never recovered.

His sister accepted a compromise of 70%, but Schopenhauer angrily refused this, and eventually recovered 9400 thalers.

This gave rise to the story that a man was turned into a wolf at each annual sacrifice to Zeus Lycaeus, but recovered his human form if he abstained from human flesh for ten years.

The Spaniards recovered possession in 1732, but found the maintenance of the place a burden rather than a benefit, the neighbouring tribes having ceased to deal with the Christians.

Yet even now Charles, by a stroke of the pen, could have recovered nearly everything he had lost.

Thus a twenty years' war was succeeded by a twenty years' peace, during which the nation recovered so rapidly from its wounds that it began to forget them.

Its existence was presently forgotten, and the name of Wexionius had dropped out of the history of literature, when Hanselli recovered a copy and reprinted its contents in 1863.

In 1897 he was struck down with insanity, and after three months' confinement in the asylum at Upsala, although he recovered his senses, all his joyousness and wildness had left him.

Antiochus pressed successfully on, and once more recovered Babylonia, but in 129 was defeated in Media and fell in a desperate struggle.

Subsequently the caliphate, which had temporarily recovered some of its authority, resumed its downward course, and the great families of Persia once again asserted themselves.

On the other side Kandahar, which Tahmasps lieutenant had yiclded to the Great Mogul, was recovered from that potentate in 1609.

He refused to acknowledge any right to separate government whatever on the part of the Afghans, and Kandahar and Ghazni were to be recovered, as belonging to the empire of the Safawid dynasty.

From the decadent state into which Glastonbury was brought by the Danish invasions it was recovered by Dunstan, who had been educated within its walls and was appointed its abbot about 946.

Fragments of reliefsculptures belonging to the parapet and columns, and of fluted drums and capitals, cornices and other architectural members have been recovered, showing that the workmanship and Ionic style were of the highest excellence, and that the building presented a variety of ornament, rare among Hellenic temples.

Such remedies are termed antiphlogistic. Venesection (blood-letting) at one time was highly esteemed as an antiphlogistic measure, and while it is possible that it has now fallen too much into disuse, there can be no doubt that at one time it was very greatly abused, and was carried to such an excess as to kill many patients who would have recovered perfectly had they been let alone.

As Carlyle has told in his Life of Sterling, the poet's distinction, in the eyes of the younger churchmen with philosophic interests, lay in his having recovered and preserved his Christian faith after having passed through periods of rationalism and Unitarianism, and faced the full results of German criticism and philosophy.

From the Mendi district many curious steatite figures which had been buried have been recovered and are exhibited in the British Museum.

Though severely plundered by the Normans in 1146 it recovered its prosperity and was selected by the Frankish dynasty de la Roche as its capital.

Metallic antimony was utilized to make goblets in which wine was allowed to stand so as to acquire emetic properties, and "everlasting" pills of the metal, supposed to act by contact merely, were administered and recovered for future use after they had fulfilled their purpose.