recover
/ɹiˈkʌvɚ/ verb C2- To cover again.
- To add a new roof membrane or steep-slope covering over an existing one.
He/she/it recovers · Past recovered · Past participle recovered · -ing form recovering
Verb forms
- Base form
- recover
- He/she/it
- recovers
- Past
- recovered
- Past participle
- recovered
- -ing form
- recovering
From the library
Come, recover.”
Here Ruby Gillis had succumbed to hysterics, and was left to recover from them as best she might, while Jane and Diana flew through the Haunted Wood and across the brook to Green Gables.
There would be other springs, but if she did not succeed in passing the Entrance, Anne felt convinced that she would never recover sufficiently to enjoy them.
She could not yet recover from the surprise of what had happened: it was impossible to think of anything else; and, totally indisposed for employment, she resolved soon after breakfast to indulge herself in air and exercise.
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