recuperate

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from Latin recuperāre, a late form of reciperāre (get again, regain, recover). Doublet of recover and recoup.

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): /ɹɪˈk(j)uːpəˌɹeɪt/
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Verb[edit]

recuperate (third-person singular simple present recuperates, present participle recuperating, simple past and past participle recuperated)

  1. To recover, especially from an illness; to get better from an illness.
  2. (sociology) To co-opt subversive ideas for mainstream use
    • 2002, Roger Beebe, Denise Fulbrook, Ben Saunders, Rock Over the Edge: Transformations in Popular Music Culture:
      [] there is also the danger [] that such a critique recuperates gender in terms that quite literally invisiblize the very issues of race and ethnicity []

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Italian[edit]

Etymology 1[edit]

Verb[edit]

recuperate

  1. inflection of recuperare:
    1. second-person plural present indicative
    2. second-person plural imperative

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Participle[edit]

recuperate f pl

  1. feminine plural of recuperato

Latin[edit]

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recuperāte

  1. second-person plural present active imperative of recuperō

Spanish[edit]

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recuperate

  1. second-person singular voseo imperative of recuperar combined with te