recuperar — meaning in English
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English meaning
- reclaim verb To get something back that was lost, taken, or given up.
- recoup verb To get back money that was spent or lost.
- recover verb To get better after being ill, injured, or upset.
- regain verb To get something back after having lost it.
- repossess verb To take back property, typically because the buyer has stopped making payments on it.
- retake verb To take an exam, photo, or scene again.
- retrieve verb To get something back, especially something that was lost, stored, or left somewhere.
- salvage noun The rescue of a ship, its cargo, or other property from damage or loss, or the property recovered this way.
Senses
recuperar is used for these senses in English:
- get back (transitive) To retrieve (something); to have (something) returned.
- make up To compensate, to fill in, to catch up.
- recoup (legal, transitive) To keep back rightfully (a part), as if by cutting off, so as to diminish a sum due; to take off (a part) from damages; to deduct.
- recover (intransitive, followed by "from" to show what caused the bad feeling) To get better, to regain health or prosperity.
- regain (transitive) To get back; to recover possession of.
- repossess (legal, finance) To reclaim ownership of property for which payment remains due.
- retake To take something back.
- retrieve (transitive) To regain or get back something.
reclaim — full definition
- verb To get something back that was lost, taken, or given up.
- verb To make land usable again, especially by draining water or clearing waste from it.
- verb To recover useful material from waste so it can be reused.