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  • For him, the strike was an opportunity to work at the job he loved and to make it in this country, but for her, it was a threat to her finances, Abuelita's arrival, and Mama's recuperation.  (source)
    recuperation = regaining of health and strength
  • Zahid Khan was in hospital for twelve days, then at home recuperating for a month after having plastic surgery to repair his nose.  (source)
    recuperating = regaining health or strength
  • Dad spent the summer recuperating.  (source)
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  • Sometimes he was beaten till he could hardly stand, then flung like a sack of potatoes on to the stone floor of a cell, left to recuperate for a few hours, and then taken out and beaten again.  (source)
    recuperate = regain strength
  • Harry felt as though he was recuperating from some brief but severe illness, an impression reinforced by Hermione's solicitousness.  (source)
    recuperating = regaining health
  • For recuperation, Madam Pomfrey wasn't sure what to prescribe and said you should probably eat lots of chocolate.†  (source)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation.
  • Have you recuperated from that court ordeal yet?  (source)
    recuperated = regained strength
  • The Eastmans decided that Noah was intellectually exhausted; the family would spend that Christmas holiday on some recuperative beach in the Caribbean.†  (source)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-ive" converts a word into an adjective; though over time, what was originally an adjective often comes to be used as a noun. The adjective pattern means tending to and is seen in words like attractive, impressive, and supportive. Examples of the noun include narrative, alternative, and detective.
  • Mr. Lesole recuperates by stretching his lower back, while Soly and Iris prepare for the next adventure: Hyena Hideaway.†  (source)
    recuperates = regains health or strength
  • I have enjoyed, too, my rests, my recuperations, my breathing times, my very prostrations after strife; but rather would I be dragged through all the circles of the foolish Italian's Inferno than through the pleasures of Europe.†  (source)
  • Grandfather would recuperate at home with Mother, and I could care for them both.†  (source)
  • "I'm still recuperating," I told her.  (source)
    recuperating = regaining health or strength
  • Nevertheless, and although he himself did not seem to notice it, those letters of recuperation and stimulation were slowly changing into pastoral letters of disenchantment.†  (source)
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