recuperate

Borrowed from Latin recuperō, recuperātus, a late form of reciperō (“to get again, regain, recover”). Doublet of recover.

• IPA^(key): /ɹɪˈk(j)uːpəˌɹeɪt/

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 […]

• recuperation

• recuperate in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• recuperate in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• recuperate at OneLook Dictionary Search

recuperate

1. second-person plural present indicative of recuperare
2. second-person plural imperative of recuperare
3. feminine plural of recuperato

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /re.ku.peˈraː.te/, [rɛ.kʊ.pɛˈraː.tɛ]

recuperāte

1. second-person plural present active imperative of recuperō