recover
part of speech
verb (recover, recovers, recovered, recovering); noun recovery
meaning for a pupil
1) To recover means to get well again after an illness or injury. tree →
2) To recover means to get back something that was lost or stolen. tree →
3) To recover from a shock or bad event means to feel normal again. tree →
4) To recover can mean to get back into a good position, as in a game. tree →
sense in the lessons
In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: It can mean to win back a city or to be healed from sickness. Interpretation: The prophets ask why Israel's healing does not come. Tradition reads this as a call to return to God, the true healer. In the primary lessons: Health and science: the body recovers with rest, food, water and sometimes medicine. Stories: the hero recovers the stolen treasure. Sport: a team recovers after a bad start. Phrases: recover from, fully recover, recover quickly, make a full recovery.
examples
- Three times did Joash smite him, and recovered the cities of Israel. (Prophets 2KI.13.25, JPS 1917) tree →
- Why then is not the health of the daughter of my people recovered? (Prophets JER.8.22, JPS 1917) tree →
- Then the Lord awaked as one asleep, like a mighty man recovering from wine. (Writings PSA.78.65, JPS 1917) tree →
- Grandpa is recovering from his operation. tree →
- The police recovered the stolen bike. tree →
- It took me a week to recover from the flu. tree →
- The team recovered and won the match. tree →
- She quickly recovered from the shock. tree →
- Drink plenty of water to help you recover. tree →
- I am afraid that he will never recover.” tree →
note
Regular verb: recovered. «Recover from» something. Not the same as «re-cover» (with a hyphen), which means to cover again: «re-cover the chair».
In the corpora
- And David recovered all that the Amalekites had taken; and David rescued his two wives.
- Three times did Joash smite him, and recovered the cities of Israel.
- The writing of Hezekiah king of Judah, when he had been sick, and was recovered of his sickness.
- Why then is not the health of the daughter of my people recovered?
- Then the Lord awaked as one asleep, like a mighty man recovering from wine.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «recover» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.