verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a patient recovers
▪ The treatment succeeded and the patient recovered rapidly.
fully recovered
▪ Elisa has not fully recovered from the incident.
get over/recover from a shock
▪ He hasn’t got over the shock of losing his job yet.
recover from an illness
▪ It took several months for him to recover from his illness.
recover from an injury
▪ It took her six months to recover from the injury.
recover from an operation
▪ A man is recovering from an emergency operation after his pet dog attacked him.
recover from an ordeal
▪ She is recovering from her ordeal after a bomb went off on the train she was on.
recover sth from the wreckage
▪ The bodies of two children were recovered from the wreckage.
recover/regain your composure (=become calm after feeling angry or upset)
▪ Carter looked stunned, but he soon regained his composure.
regain/get back/recover your sanity
▪ I took a vacation to try to recover my sanity.
regain/recover consciousness (=wake up)
▪ I wanted to stay at the hospital until he regained consciousness.
regain/recover your balance (=become steady again)
▪ He held onto Carrie until he regained his balance.
the economy recovers (=returns to normal condition after a period of trouble or difficulty)
▪ The economy is beginning to recover from the recession.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
completely
▪ In 1894 he was invalided home and never completely recovered his health.
▪ Many people recovered completely, or nearly so.
▪ Although most recover completely from the infection, some suffer kidney damage which can be permanent, and can kill.
▪ Howe noted that it often takes a pitcher two years to completely recover from elbow surgery.
▪ He had never completely recovered from the serious illness he had had when he first arrived.
▪ She recovered completely, but we would like to know what causes a pulmonary embolus and how it can be prevented.
▪ Her doctor had told her that she had completely recovered.
▪ Personally, I doubt that I have ever completely recovered from my first experience of a communal shower almost 20 years ago.
fully
▪ It is hoped to released the bird back into the wild when it is fully recovered.
▪ By spring practice, tailback Skip Hicks is expected to be fully recovered from knee injuries.
▪ Now that her ankle was fully recovered she could wear a higher pair of fragile silver sandals.
▪ A victim never fully recovers from the feeling of insecurity.
▪ She still has another year of injections and tablets before she's fully recovered.
▪ Ricky: Yes, but he is fully recovered now.&038;.
▪ The centre of the city did not fully recover for nearly two centuries.
▪ He said he never fully recovered.
never
▪ It was only then that Jean-Pierre discovered he had contracted tuberculosis in jail, and had never recovered.
▪ Shaw never recovered from the failure of Richardson, Hill.
▪ Despite a substantial reward being offered, it was never recovered.
▪ Last season they were 3-10 by the time Thanksgiving rolled around, and they never recovered.
▪ The careers of the four soldiers never recovered.
▪ And I know, from the sobering vantage point of midlife, that she will never recover.
▪ He never recovered and died yesterday afternoon.
▪ I feel I have never recovered from this to this day.
quickly
▪ No society can recover quickly from the intellectual and moral corruption the Milosevic regime produced.
▪ In that first instant, I was frightened, although I quickly recovered and enjoyed my swim call.
▪ This time, though, there was hope; her strong young body recovered quickly from the ordeal of Hubert's birth.
▪ Ted recovered quickly after that point and picked up the ball.
▪ I pray that those who have been injured will recover quickly.
▪ The need for better food Patients recover quickly if they are well nourished.
▪ She recovered quickly and came flying at me again.
still
▪ The level of the early 1950s was abnormal in the sense that major trading nations were still recovering from internal war devastation.
▪ The woman is still recovering from severe head injuries at a local hospital.
▪ The whole visit was something of a disaster, and he was still recovering from it months later.
▪ Mr Honecker, 77 and still recovering from a gall-bladder operation, has so far flatly rejected all notions of change.
▪ He's still recovering from the knee injury which put him in hospital last February.
▪ Bardot was still recovering from shock after narrowly missing being shot earlier this year by hunters killing her pets.
▪ Headteachers who worked in the city at that time are still recovering from the barrage of far-Left directives.
well
▪ Ruari had recovered well, but tired easily and needed help even more than before.
▪ In time, he recovered well enough to get around, but not well enough ever to play tennis again.
▪ And an extended payments schedule might well recover the debt more surely than strict enforcement - which might instead precipitate financial collapse.
▪ I received treatment on my injury every day in Edinburgh, so that by the end I was recovering well.
▪ She recovered well and was allowed home on thyroxine replacement treatment.
▪ In fact the Middle East has recovered well after the Gulf War.
▪ A doctor at Brecon Memorial Hospital said the boy was recovering well from exposure.
▪ Happily, most of Gary's friends are back to work and even the most seriously injured are recovering well.
■ NOUN
balance
▪ He stumbled near the exit from the tower, recovered his balance.
▪ It is assisted by conscious intention on our part to recover balance and vibrant health.
▪ With commendable promptitude, he caught Harrison by the collar and held him firmly, while Agnes and Dotty recovered their balance.
▪ Once she stumbled and nearly fell headlong, but somehow she recovered her balance and tore on.
▪ Yussuf tried to recover his balance, tried to jump, but the wall collapsed too fast.
▪ Aldaniti recovered his balance and sped on towards the second.
▪ But he recovered his balance in a stride and made off for the water jump.
▪ But she recovered her balance and carried on.
body
▪ He'd know that some one would have to go down there and recover the body and it could easily have been spotted.
▪ As darkness fell, rescue workers with flashlights began recovering and identifying bodies.
▪ A Clwyd Search and Rescue mountain team helped recover the body and carry it to a waiting vehicle.
▪ Subsequent reports said that rescuers had recovered up to 180 bodies from the wreckage.
▪ In south Armagh, police recovered a man's body from a road-side ditch.
▪ Crews had yet to recover the main body of the plane and the engine.
composure
▪ Not until the final quarter did the home side recover their composure, by which time it was way too late.
▪ He began to recover his composure.
cost
▪ Cities and counties sued to recover the costs of gun violence.
▪ Eight states have sued the industry, seeking to recover the Medicaid insurance costs of treating poor people with tobacco-related diseases.
▪ The cancer institute met the major costs of discovery, but Glaxo claims it is recovering costs.
▪ After recovering his costs, the women or their representative Mata made payments on outstanding loans.
▪ The Franks report cost £60 000 and stands a good chance of recovering some of that cost through sales of the report.
▪ Costs in contentious cases are more complicated because a successful party may normally recover some of the costs from the losing party.
▪ The Powermiser should recover its cost in one quarter, depending on your hot water consumption.
▪ Those that did so recovered their costs within six months.
costs
▪ Crucially, as well as setting up the registers, the Act permits local authorities to recover clean-up costs from owners.
▪ Eight states have sued the industry, seeking to recover the Medicaid insurance costs of treating poor people with tobacco-related diseases.
▪ Cities and counties sued to recover the costs of gun violence.
▪ After recovering his costs, the women or their representative Mata made payments on outstanding loans.
▪ The cancer institute met the major costs of discovery, but Glaxo claims it is recovering costs.
▪ The city Planning Commission recommended that the club be forced to pay a law-enforcement tax to help the department recover its costs.
▪ However, events which entitle the contractor to an extension of time may also entitle the contractor to recover extra costs.
▪ Overall, organiser David Fisk claims the Festival is well on its way to recovering its £500,000 costs.
economy
▪ Unemployment remained high and the economy recovered very slowly.
▪ Wilson made three separate proposals for personal income tax cuts as the California economy recovered from a deep recession.
▪ Officials hope that this will help the economy to recover.
▪ Then, in the recession of 1991, these same businessmen could not imagine that the economy would ever recover.
▪ But, generally speaking, the economy had by 1937 recovered to the level reached before the Depression started in 1929.
▪ Signs the economy is recovering hurt bonds by sparking concern that inflation may accelerate, eroding bonds' fixed payments.
▪ The economy has yet to recover.
hospital
▪ Peggy Holmes, who is in her 60s, is now recovering in the City Hospital.
▪ She also featured Pat Lynch, a nurse who helped Dole recover at a hospital in Michigan.
▪ Simon Forrest suffered multiple fractures when his car crashed into a van, recovering in hospital, he echoes the speed warnings.
▪ My husband, just recovering from hospital treatment himself, must now care for me, entailing 24-hour supervision.
▪ Father-of-two Robin was flown home to Hexham, Northumberland, where he was recovering in hospital last night.
▪ His wife was also shot and is recovering in hospital.
▪ He's now recovering at hospital in Oxford.
illness
▪ And in our psychiatric rehabilitation centres for men and women of all ages recovering from mental illness.
▪ So they recover faster from illnesses.
▪ However, the long-term outlook for reproductive function is poor in patients who conceive before they have fully recovered from their illness.
▪ That is something that needs to be said, as he is very popular and has just recovered from a serious illness.
▪ He had never completely recovered from the serious illness he had had when he first arrived.
▪ All assumed then and indeed until two days ago that Chapman was recovering from his illness.
▪ These may be helpful when recovering from an illness or if you fear your normal diet is lacking.
▪ Shah Jehan had now recovered from his illness and was able to move to Agra and join in the victory celebrations.
injury
▪ Mister Grant has a long way to go before he will fully recover from his injuries.
▪ Nor could he recover if his injury was inflicted upon him by a fellow worker.
▪ He thought it quite possible that Pike had starved the horse to help it recover from its leg injury.
▪ The woman is still recovering from severe head injuries at a local hospital.
▪ Allow at least six weeks to recover from a head injury.
▪ Caps were installed in many states on the amount peo-ple could recover for their own injuries.
▪ In her short career keep-fit fanatic Lesley has had to spend nearly nine months off duty recovering from her injuries.
▪ But guard depth behind Edwards could be a problem unless Saudia Roundtree is recovered from a knee injury.
knee
▪ He's still recovering from the knee injury which put him in hospital last February.
▪ And the Suns may get forward Danny Manning, who is recovering from knee surgery, back soon.
▪ And he has had to recover from two knee operations.
▪ He started the majority of games in the final two months of the season as Clyde Drexler recovered from knee surgery.
▪ But now his injuries have caught up with him, despite a brave battle to recover from recent knee surgery.
▪ By spring practice, tailback Skip Hicks is expected to be fully recovered from knee injuries.
▪ Proctor has recovered from a minor knee operation.
▪ But guard depth behind Edwards could be a problem unless Saudia Roundtree is recovered from a knee injury.
loss
▪ In spite of this, Hedley Byrne did not recover its loss since the reports submitted by Heller &038; Partners had expressly disclaimed responsibility.
▪ London shares recovered from deep early losses to end slightly lower.
▪ Zurich: Shares closed steady after recovering early losses caused by rising interest rates.
▪ The tenant filed a claim against the landlord to recover his losses.
▪ He can be forgiven that lapse and should recover losses at the expense of the Gold Cup pretender.
▪ They have since recovered their losses.
▪ There are provisions enabling investors to recover loss they have suffered as a result of entering into the share transactions.
▪ Saddam's military machine is now thought to have fully recovered from losses sustained in the Gulf War.
market
▪ It was loth to do this because the bonds were a potential goldmine when the junk-bond market recovered.
▪ Stock and bond markets recovered yesterday as investors focused on other issues besides the budget impasse.
▪ But when the market recovered, the deals stopped.
▪ But the market is recovering its role.
▪ The market is going to recover, in fact there are signs of already.
▪ If one effect of recession is to bring back collecting, rather than investing, then the market will recover.
money
▪ So Woolwich had no cause of action to recover the money until the date of his order of 31 July 1987.
▪ The companies had asked the commission to set up a hearing for recovering the money from customers.
▪ The auditors check the accuracy of accounts and seek to recover money lost through fraud.
▪ The appellants sought to recover the money.
▪ He recovered this money the following day.
▪ They will take action, through the courts if necessary, to recover the money.
▪ The student union are taking legal advice about whether they can take any further action to recover the missing money.
▪ It follows that if the buyer had paid he could have recovered that money.
operation
▪ Mr Honecker, 77 and still recovering from a gall-bladder operation, has so far flatly rejected all notions of change.
▪ Later, bassist Mike Mills recovered from abdominal surgery and Michael Stipe recovered from a hernia operation.
▪ And he has had to recover from two knee operations.
▪ Rusedski is recovering from an operation to clear up a persistent problem in the tendons of his right foot.
▪ Tracey is also being shown in advance how she can help herself when she's recovering from the operation.
▪ The 20-year-old, recovering from a hernia operation, returns to full training convinced he can boost Spurs revival still further.
▪ That's despite new evidence that people in their seventies or eighties can recover from operations just as well as the young.
▪ Last night Clare's parents were at her hospital bedside as she recovered after an operation on her horrific wounds.
ordeal
▪ This time, though, there was hope; her strong young body recovered quickly from the ordeal of Hubert's birth.
▪ Consequently he was recovering from his minor ordeal.
▪ Christopher, of Bognor Regis, Sussex, was rushed to hospital, where he spent five days recovering from his ordeal.
▪ He stood for a moment, eyes closed, recovering from the ordeal, and then lit a cigarette.
plaintiff
▪ If the defence is successful then the plaintiff will recover no damages at all.
▪ Second, would it be an affront to the public conscience to allow the plaintiff to recover.
▪ Moreover, it is now well established that an injured plaintiff can recover for the unpaid services of a friend or relative.
▪ The plaintiff can only recover on the strength of his own title and not on the weakness of the defendant's.
▪ Two of his victims successfully sued him and the plaintiff then tried to recover the damages from the defendant.
▪ The plaintiffs failed to recover as no tangible injury had been done to their property - no apparatus had been damaged.
shock
▪ I had not yet recovered from the simple shock of finding that many of them talked and behaved exactly like us.
▪ Madame Héloise seemed to have recovered from her shock and the accident, and be back in fighting form again.
▪ When I recovered from the shock, the sight I witnessed was appalling.
▪ Bardot was still recovering from shock after narrowly missing being shot earlier this year by hunters killing her pets.
▪ She was profoundly upset and had never really recovered from the shock.
▪ The gesture helped Jean-Pierre recover from the shock of seeing Jane.
▪ She was still recovering from the shock of that earlier bout of jealousy.
surgery
▪ By last night only one victim remained in hospital - a 25-year-old man recovering from surgery to remove glass from his arm.
▪ And the Suns may get forward Danny Manning, who is recovering from knee surgery, back soon.
▪ Rideout has been troubled by the problem for some time and will need six weeks to recover after surgery.
▪ He started the majority of games in the final two months of the season as Clyde Drexler recovered from knee surgery.
▪ In Tokyo, however, recovering from major surgery, she dropped out after 16 miles.
▪ Howe noted that it often takes a pitcher two years to completely recover from elbow surgery.
▪ But now his injuries have caught up with him, despite a brave battle to recover from recent knee surgery.
▪ Later, bassist Mike Mills recovered from abdominal surgery and Michael Stipe recovered from a hernia operation.
■ VERB
allow
▪ Second, would it be an affront to the public conscience to allow the plaintiff to recover.
▪ Were they allowed to recover, the animals would be thinner and less productive.
▪ If the muscularis propria escapes extensive damage, we assume that the impaired bowel propulsion is allowed to recover to some extent.
begin
▪ Oliver is found again Oliver began to recover and slowly regain his strength.
▪ As darkness fell, rescue workers with flashlights began recovering and identifying bodies.
▪ In complete contrast the South East began to recover relatively.
▪ A week after the attacks, Peres began to recover in the polls and now leads Netanyahu by 5 percentage points.
▪ The people began to recover from the horrors of the long war with Chaos and for a while the population grew.
▪ Sarah soon began to recover, although it was clear that it would be some time before she was completely well again.
▪ Only with computers and microscopes have we begun to recover some of the knowledge lost with the Stone Age.
entitle
▪ This loss he is entitled to recover.
▪ Are students or teachers who bring successful civil rights lawsuits entitled to recover their attorneys' fees?
▪ For the avoidance of doubt I make clear that the investor would not be entitled to recover more than £100,000.
▪ However, events which entitle the contractor to an extension of time may also entitle the contractor to recover extra costs.
▪ We are entitled to recover any such monies from your salary.
▪ This may be done by including such expenses among the items for which the landlord is entitled to recover a service charge.
fail
▪ His body had failed to recover, but it was also refusing to die.
▪ He had failed to recover fully from a major heart by-pass operation.
▪ Meanwhile, thanks to the bad parts, output would fail to recover.
help
▪ Better technology should help both to recover more gas from existing reserves and also to make new areas accessible.
▪ Fortunately, proven techniques can help people recover from these habits.
▪ Expressing your feelings should help you start to recover.
▪ In the recession of the early 1990s the United States successfully used lower interest rates to help it recover from a recession.
▪ He thought it quite possible that Pike had starved the horse to help it recover from its leg injury.
▪ Ma says his runners do well because they train at high altitude and are given special herbal tonics to help them recover.
▪ To help me recover my confidence?
▪ She also featured Pat Lynch, a nurse who helped Dole recover at a hospital in Michigan.
seek
▪ As a result they are less willing to accept the increasing costs caused by disruption and seek to recover them through claims.
▪ Regulators sought to recover the $ 750, 000 outstanding after the sale of the three Valmark properties.
▪ The auditors check the accuracy of accounts and seek to recover money lost through fraud.
▪ Eight states have sued the industry, seeking to recover the Medicaid insurance costs of treating poor people with tobacco-related diseases.
▪ The subsidiary remains a defendant in an action that seeks to recover billions of dollars spent on treating sick smokers.
try
▪ They've formed an action committee to try to recover the funds.
▪ The tax laws prohibit you from trying to recover from your employees taxes that you were required to pay on their behalf.
▪ Yussuf tried to recover his balance, tried to jump, but the wall collapsed too fast.
▪ The scandal, which comes as the department is still trying to recover from the Rodney King beating and the O.J.
▪ He was still trying to recover from his earlier slip.
▪ J., to try to recover the deposit on the van.
▪ The police are now trying to recover two more stolen cars which had already been sold for up to thirty thousand pounds.
▪ Last employed by Houston, he is trying to recover from a career-threatening ankle injury.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
gather/collect/recover etc your wits
▪ He remained still and tried to gather his wits.
▪ I felt helpless, but tried to gather my wits.
▪ I tried to collect my wits for the arrival.
▪ It is gone even before the predator can gather its wits and make chase.
▪ She slowly gathered her wits, and looked round.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ A number of bodies were recovered from the wreckage.
▪ Doctors say she will recover quickly.
▪ He never recovered the use of his legs.
▪ He never really recovered from the operation.
▪ It took a long time for the British economy to recover from the effects of the war.
▪ It took the rest of the winter for her to recover her health.
▪ It was several months before John had fully recovered from his heart attack.
▪ Losing my job was a terrible blow, and it took me quite a while to recover.
▪ Mark never really recovered from the shock of his father's death.
▪ My mother's been very ill, and is still in hospital recovering.
▪ Sammy needed to recover a little before they could move him to a hospital nearer his home.
▪ The bank is planning to sue the company in order to try and recover it's money.
▪ The company hopes to recover the cost of developing their new product.
▪ The Eagles had a 37-20 lead at halftime, and the Broncos couldn't recover.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Edmonton recovered less than half its total annual costs from electricity sales last year, as you say.
▪ His daughter, however, is still finding it difficult to recover from her traumatic assault in New York.
▪ Larkin said Nutrition For Life shares could recover further if the company reports better-than-expected earnings later this month.
▪ Police said 21 bodies had been recovered as by last night and the final toll would not be clear until today.
▪ Punk music has not recovered since.
▪ The informant was arrested the next day and most of the money was recovered.
▪ Wages were pitiful and despite recovering somewhat in certain sectors in the last years before the war, they remained very low.