Crossword clues for recovered
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Recover \Re*cov"er\ (r?*k?v"?r), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Recovered (-?rd); p. pr. & vb. n. Recovering. ] [OE. recoveren, OF. recovrer, F. recouvrer, from L. recuperare; pref. re- re + a word of unknown origin. Cf. Recuperate.]
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To get or obtain again; to get renewed possession of; to win back; to regain.
David recovered all that the Amalekites had carried away.
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To make good by reparation; to make up for; to retrieve; to repair the loss or injury of; as, to recover lost time. ``Loss of catel may recovered be.''
--Chaucer.Even good men have many failings and lapses to lament and recover.
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To restore from sickness, faintness, or the like; to bring back to life or health; to cure; to heal.
The wine in my bottle will recover him.
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To overcome; to get the better of, -- as a state of mind or body.
I do hope to recover my late hurt.
--Cowley.When I had recovered a little my first surprise.
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To rescue; to deliver.
That they may recover themselves out of the snare of the devil, who are taken captive by him.
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6. To gain by motion or effort; to obtain; to reach; to come to. [Archaic]
The forest is not three leagues off; If we recover that, we're sure enough.
--Shak.Except he could recover one of the Cities of Refuge he was to die.
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(Law) To gain as a compensation; to obtain in return for injury or debt; as, to recover damages in trespass; to recover debt and costs in a suit at law; to obtain title to by judgement in a court of law; as, to recover lands in ejectment or common recovery; to gain by legal process; as, to recover judgement against a defendant.
Recover arms (Mil. Drill), a command whereby the piece is brought from the position of ``aim'' to that of ``ready.''
Syn: To regain; repossess; resume; retrieve; recruit; heal; cure.
Wiktionary
vb. (en-past of: recover)
WordNet
Usage examples of "recovered".
Von Mayr believes the war had a depressing influence upon the rate apart from the mere absence of the men, as shown in the fact that immediately upon the cessation of hostilities it recovered in Bavaria, although it was several months before the return of the troops.
This daughter suffered an attack of peritonitis, but recovered in two months under the treatment administered.
Harvey reports that a certain maid, gotten with child by her master, in order to hide her knavery came to London in September, where she lay in by stealth, and being recovered, returned home.
A peculiar feature of this case was the fact that mental disturbance set in immediately afterward, and the mother became morbid and had to be removed to an asylum, but recovered in a few months.
Mauriceau delivered a woman of a healthy child at full term after she had recovered from a severe attack of this disease during the fifth month of gestation.
After birth the child had seven malarial paroxysms but recovered, the splenic tumor disappearing.
The woman recovered, and the fetal heart-beats could be readily auscultated.
The patient, who was five months advanced in gestation, recovered without aborting.
Her body was recovered, and a surgeon who was present seized a knife from a butcher standing by and extracted a living child in the presence of the curious spectators.
In her sixth pregnancy she had miscalculated her time, and, in consequence, her uterus ruptured in an unexpected parturition, but she recovered and had several subsequent pregnancies.
Atlee submits quite a remarkable case of congenital ventral gestation, the subject being a girl of six, who recovered after the discharge of the fetal mass from the abdomen.
The patient recovered her general health, but with almost total loss of hair, only a few red, white, and black hairs remaining on the occipital and temporal regions.
Susan Edmonds when in her ninety-fifth year recovered her black hair, but previously to her death at one hundred and five again became gray.
In one instance the lad was traced from the moment of his being carried off by a lurking wolf while his parents were working in the field, to the time when, after having been recovered by his mother six years later, he escaped from her into the jungle.
I learned all I wanted to know of wolf-children, for he not only knew of several cases, but had actually seen and examined, near Agra, a child which had been recovered from the wolves.