Sample sentences for RECUPERATE

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Definition

to regain good health or strength

The patient is recuperating

recuperating = regaining health or strength

The company managed to recuperate
So far, it appears that the H1N1 season will not cause wide-scale shutdowns of schools or businesses. But to control the spread of the disease, the CDC is advising that schools use separate rooms where sick students can wait until they go home to recuperate.
Alice Park -- Time, 2009 -- http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1924276_1924300_1924296,00.html (retrieved 01/18/10)
"I'm still recuperating," I told her.
J.D. Salinger -- The Catcher in the Rye

recuperating = regaining health or strength

We want sleep, both you and I, and rest to recuperate.
Bram Stoker -- Dracula

recuperate = to regain good health or strength

Have you recuperated from that court ordeal yet?
Sharon M. Draper -- Tears of a Tiger

recuperated = regained strength

With his usual recuperative energy, he went on, "Come."
Bram Stoker -- Dracula

(editor's note: 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.)

It is wonderful, however, what intellectual recuperative power lunatics have, for within a few minutes he stood up quite calmly and looked around him.
Bram Stoker -- Dracula

Miro had kept moving through the downpour, knowing he could not indulge in the luxury of rest or recuperation.
Robert Cormier -- After the First Death

(editor's note: 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.)

He stroked the cat's neck, then released it back to its own world where it could further recuperate.
R.A. Salvatore -- The Crystal Shard
Only men, Mahtob, and me, recuperating around the fire.
Betty Mahmoody -- Not Without My Daughter
There I would recuperate, and this time I would not rush things.
Roger Zelazny -- Nine Princes in Amber
"Recuperating, yes," Bellamy said.
Dan Brown -- The Lost Symbol
Recuperation postponed my arrival in New Orleans.
Peter Jenkins -- A Walk Across America

David lay in the healing ward, alive but far too weak, to conjure his veil anew while he recuperated under the watchful eyes of the Moomenhovens.
Henry H. Neff -- The Second Siege
All Georgia wanted was to be let alone so the state could recuperate.
Margaret Mitchell -- Gone with the Wind
I spent several days in hospital recuperating from the surgery.
Nelson Mandela -- Long Walk to Freedom
The Negroes and the "toughs" from the Levee did not want to work, and every few minutes some of them would feel obliged to retire and recuperate.
Upton Sinclair -- The Jungle
Zahid Khan was in hospital for twelve days, then at home recuperating for a month after having plastic surgery to repair his nose.
Malala Yousafzai -- I Am Malala
Too it was important that he should have time for physical recuperation.
Stephen Crane -- The Red Badge of Courage

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