0 present participle of recover --
1 to become completely well again after an illness or injury: --
The initial outlay of setting up a company is considerable and it takes a while to recover those costs.
Police only recover a very small percentage of stolen goods.
She was astonished to see me, but she soon recovered her composure/herself (= soon gave the appearance of being calm).
She went into a coma and died without recovering consciousness.
It took a long time for the economy to recover after the slump.
It took her a long time to recover from/after her heart operation.
It gives the lie to the professed aim of recovering the astrological craft itself.
With the economy recovering from the crisis in 1999, both went up by 5 percentage points.
For recovering the parasite, the inoculation sites, livers and peritoneal cavities of the gerbils were examined at necropsy.
Credit operations experienced a relative decline in the 1989-94 period, recovering after 1995, but without returning to the (higher) levels of the 1980s.
It then entered a slow decline through the 1970s and 1980s, before stabilising and recovering slightly in the 1990s.
The result was ' 'magical,' ' with all the townspeople recovering their health.
The heuristic recovering from noise was particularly effective, successfully handling 87.5% of instances on average.
However, - partly because the computational problem of recovering information about these properties from the stimulus array is underconstrained - mistakes are made.
