1. (verb)recover, retrieve, find, regain get or find back; recover the use of Synonyms: line up, detect, go back, find oneself, recoup, get, get hold, recollect, recuperate, find, reclaim, rule, notice, convalesce, call up, chance, determine, see, find out, come up, think, encounter, happen, retrieve, feel, incur, observe, recall, witness, call back, recover, ascertain, bump, remember, regain, obtain, discover, receive
2. (verb)recuperate, recover, convalesce get over an illness or shock Synonyms: retrieve, reclaim, go back, recuperate, recoup, recover, regain, convalesce, find
3. (verb)recover, go back, recuperate regain a former condition after a financial loss Synonyms: retrieve, reclaim, date back, find, recuperate, recoup, go back, recur, recover, regain, convalesce, date from
4. (verb)recover, recoup, recuperate regain or make up for Synonyms: retrieve, reclaim, reimburse, find, recuperate, withhold, recoup, go back, deduct, recover, regain, convalesce
1. recover The transitive use of recover in the sense of cure, heal, etc., as in 2 Kings v, 6, "That thou mayest recover him of his leprosy," is now practically obsolete. The chief transitive use of Synonyms: recover, be cured _or_ healed, heal, recuperate, restore, be restored, reanimate, regain, resume, cure, recruit, repossess, retrieve Antonyms: die, fail, grow worse, relapse, sink
Synonyms for recover 
