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
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
- 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
- American alligators live in swamps, rivers and lakes in the south-eastern USA and recovered from being endangered once hunting was controlled.
- Some hyphens stop two different words from looking the same: re-cover (cover again) and recover (get better).
- "In recovery" means recovering from an addiction, such as to alcohol or drugs, and staying off it.
- Golden ages end too: the An Lushan rebellion of 755 shook the Tang so hard that it never fully recovered.
- After weeks in a cast the muscles are smaller and the joints stiff, and they recover over a few weeks.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «recover» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.