RECUPERATED Synonyms: 40 Similar and Opposite Words

recuperated

verb

past tense of recuperate

as in recovered

to become healthy and strong again after illness or weakness half the office was out today, many employees being sick or recuperating from the flu

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Recent Examples of recuperated Hockney in the 1960s recuperated figurative painting and, more specifically, the human form, both of which had been previously rejected by the abstraction then ascendant. — News Desk, Artforum, 12 June 2026 After a lackluster short program that led to an unexpected second-place finish for Ilia Malinin, the Quad God recuperated with a near-clean free skate to lead Team USA to a gold medal finish in the figure skating team event competition. — Natalie Oganesyan, Deadline, 8 Feb. 2026 After a demanding weekend of races at Zandvoort, Larsen recuperated 30 minutes away in her De L’Europe Amsterdam suite. — Spencer Whaley, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2025 The seventeen-year-old mandolin-and-violin tune that millennials played with anticipatory nostalgia during college is now accompanying social-media video clips about the DC Universe, its cringe wholly recuperated as commodity. — Kyle Chayka, New Yorker, 13 Aug. 2025

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recovered

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And Kpler said oil flows from the Persian Gulf have recovered to around 70% of pre-war levels.

— Jason Ma, Fortune, 30 Aug. 2026
The bodies were carried hundreds of kilometers downstream by the Bhotekoshi River from the flood's epicenter before being recovered in Chitwan.

— ABC News, ABC News, 30 Aug. 2026

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