Usually means: Recover health or regain strength.
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General (24 matching dictionaries)
  1. recuperate: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. recuperate: Merriam-Webster
  3. recuperate: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. recuperate: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. recuperate: Collins English Dictionary
  6. recuperate: Vocabulary.com
  7. recuperate: Wordnik
  8. recuperate: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. recuperate: Wiktionary
  10. recuperate: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. recuperate: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. recuperate: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. recuperate: Dictionary.com
  14. recuperate: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Recuperate: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Recuperate: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. recuperate: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. recuperate: Rhymezone
  19. recuperate: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. recuperate: FreeDictionary.org
  21. recuperate: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. recuperate: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. recuperate: Legal dictionary

Medicine (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. recuperate: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Recuperate: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  3. Recuperate: MedFriendly Glossary
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  5. recuperate: Medical dictionary
  6. Recuperate: Drug Medical Dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. recuperate: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Recuperate: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See recuperated as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (intransitive) To recover, especially from an illness; to get better from an illness or from exhaustion (or sometimes from a financial loss, etc).
verb:  (transitive) To restore (someone or something) to health, strength, or currency; to revive or rehabilitate.
verb:  (transitive) To recover; to regain.
verb:  (sociology) To co-opt (a problematic or suspect idea) so that it becomes part of an accepted discourse; to reclaim.

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