Both Uses
recuperate
in
The Chosen, by Chaim Potok
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- My father, recuperating slowly and looking worn and weary, sat in his bed propped on pillows, and read the newspaper stories of the horrors that had occurred in those camps.†
Chpt 2.11 *recuperating = regaining health or strength
- Had my father been well at that time, I would have talked to him about it, but he was in the hospital, recuperating slowly, and I didn't want to upset him with an account of Danny's reading.†
Chpt 2.12
Definitions:
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(1)
(recuperate) to regain good health or strength
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)