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1. Regain or make up for
   "recuperate one's losses"
   - recover, recoup
    
2. Regain a former condition after a financial loss
   "The company managed to recuperate"
   - recover, go back
    
3. Restore to good health or strength
    
4. Get over an illness or shock
   "The patient is recuperating"
   - recover, convalesce

Derived forms: recuperates, recuperated, recuperating

See also: recuperation, recuperative

Type of: acquire, ameliorate, better, bring around, cure, get, heal, improve, meliorate, regress, retrovert, return, revert, turn back

Antonym: deteriorate