recover
/ɹɪˈkʌvɚ/ verbe B1En français : recouvrer, récupérer, guérir, se remettre
- To get back, to regain (a physical thing; in astronomy and navigation, sight of a thing or a signal). · After days of inquiries, he finally recovered his lost wallet.· For days telescopes surveyed the skies to recover the small asteroid.
- To salvage, to extricate, to rescue (a thing or person). · They recovered three of the explorers very much alive, then another, wracked with severe hypothermia, who was taken to hospital.
- To replenish to, resume (a good state of mind or body). · At the top of the hill I asked to stop for a few minutes to recover my strength.
- To obtain a positive judgement; to win in a lawsuit. · The plaintiff recovered in his suit, being awarded declaratory relief and a clearing of his name.
- To gain as compensation or reparation, usually by formal legal process. · to recover damages in trespass; to recover debt and costs in a legal action or that is owing· to recover lands in ejectment or common recovery
- To regain one's composure, balance etc. · Spinning round, he caught a stone with his ankle, but recovered quickly before turning to face me.
- To get better, to regain health or prosperity. · I was hurt, but I knew I’d recover, given time.· Without calling in Business Recovery experts, the company saw trade and investor confidence recover sharply in the wake of the crisis.
Pluriel recover · He/she/it recovers · Prétérit recovered · Participe passé recovered · Forme en -ing recovering
Formes du verbe
- Forme de base
- recover
- He/she/it
- recovers
- Prétérit
- recovered
- Participe passé
- recovered
- Forme en -ing
- recovering
Dans la bibliothèque
As soon as the jury had a little recovered from the shock of being upset, and their slates and pencils had been found and handed back to them, they set to work very diligently to write out a history of the accident, all except the Lizard, who seemed too much overcome to do anything but sit with its mouth open, gazing up into the roof of the court.
He dropped it in the street, and got out to recover it.
“Anne go to your room and stay there until I come up,” said Marilla, recovering her powers of speech with difficulty.
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.
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