0 present participle of recover
1 to become completely well again after an illness or injury:
It took her a long time to recover from/after her heart operation.
It took a long time for the economy to recover after the slump.
She went into a coma and died without recovering consciousness.
She was astonished to see me, but she soon recovered her composure/herself (= soon gave the appearance of being calm).
Police only recover a very small percentage of stolen goods.
The initial outlay of setting up a company is considerable and it takes a while to recover those costs.
The doctors say that it will take him a few weeks to recover.
It will be impossible to recover all the misapplied charity money.
Although she's recovering from her illness, her rate of progress is quite slow.
He looked surprised but soon recovered his self-possession.
Simultaneous multiple-point measurements were therefore made to provide information about these structures in the unperturbed and recovering boundary layer.
Importance of recovering victims and their personal effects.
Part of understanding those artifacts, then, is recovering that world through identifying the basic structures of relation between the person and the ' object ' of worship.
