recuperate /ɹɪˈk(j)uːpəˌɹeɪt/ verb4 •To recover, especially from an illness; to get better from an illness or from exhaustion (or sometimes from a financial loss, etc).As you recuperate, you’ll crave / the life lived by the knave, behave! — 2026 •To restore (someone or something) to health, strength, or currency; to revive or rehabilitate.[...] of each province in 1842 and 1894 - that is, before the Taiping rebellion, and since China has recuperated her forces. — 1901 •To co-opt (a problematic or suspect idea) so that it becomes part of an accepted discourse; to reclaim.She sought ultimately to recuperate the classical concept of the public realm against what she described, in negative terms, as the "rise of the social" characteristic of the modern world. — 1999 •To recover; to regain. formsrecuperated · recuperating · recuperates