Definition of "recover"

And Dauid recouered all that the Amalekites had caried away: and Dauid reſcued his two wiues.

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], 1 Samuel 30:18, column 1

Not unnaturally, “Auntie” took this communication in bad part. Thus outraged, she showed herself to be a bold as well as a furious virago. Next day she found her way to their lodgings and tried to recover her ward by the hair of the head.

1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XXII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company

All the comrades of the Party must strive with maximum courage and unswerving determination, together with our compatriots of the whole country, to carry out our historic task of recovering the mainland and reshaping the Chinese nation.

1979 December 16, Ching-kuo Chiang, “Chairman Chiang Ching-kuo's Opening Address to the KMT Plenum”, in 自由中國週報 [Free China Weekly]‎, volume XX, number 49, Taipei, page 3, column 1

Network Rail doesn't expect the line through Carmont to open for around a month, as it faces the mammoth task of recovering the two power cars and four coaches from ScotRail's wrecked train, repairing bridge 325, stabilising earthworks around the landslip, and replacing the track.

2020 August 26, “Network News: Mid-September before line reopens, says Network Rail”, in Rail, page 10

The forest is not three leagues off; / If we recover that, we're sure enough.

c. 1590–1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Two Gentlemen of Verona”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, [Act V, scene i]

But with much ado the Christians recovered to Antioch, having ſcarce a third part of them left, their horſes all dead, and themſelves ſcarce mounted on their legs, miſerably weak; as what the mercy of ſword, plague, and famine had pleaſed to ſpare.

1639, Thomas Fuller, “Theobald King of Navarre Maketh an Unsuccessfull Voyage into Palestine”, in The Historie of the Holy Warre, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: […] Thomas Buck, one of the printers to the Universitie of Cambridge [and sold by John Williams, London], book IV, page 179

Except he could recover one of the Cities of Refuge he was to die.

1646, John Hales, Golden Remains of the Ever Memorable Mr. John Hales

The wine in my bottle will recover him.

1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, [Act II, scene ii]

And that they may recouer themſelues out of the ſnare of the deuill, who are taken captiue by him at his will.

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], 2 Timothy 2:26, column 2

Cnelius a physician […] gave him a clyster, by which he was speedily recovered.

1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Printed by John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps

The fever must have run its course by now, and if he is about to die I will recover him.

1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887

Even good men have […] many failings and lapses to lament and recover.

a. 1729, John Rogers, The Difficulties of Obtaining Salvation

I do hope to recover my late hurt.

21 May, 1665, Abraham Cowley, letter to Dr. Thomas Sprat

when I had recovered a little, Friday (said I) God will at last punish him severely

1719 May 6 (Gregorian calendar), [Daniel Defoe], The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, […], 3rd edition, London: […] W[illiam] Taylor […], published 1719

Meanwhile Nanny Broome was recovering from her initial panic and seemed anxious to make up for any kudos she might have lost, by exerting her personality to the utmost. She took the policeman's helmet and placed it on a chair, and unfolded his tunic to shake it and fold it up again for him.

1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 19, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus

My trip along the rest of the line is delightful. It's yet another route that has recovered from previous rationalisation by having tracks and platforms reinstated in recent years.

2020 December 2, Paul Bigland, “My weirdest and wackiest Rover yet”, in Rail, page 67

It was neuer in my thoughte saide laūcelot to withholde the quene from my lord Arthur / but in soo moche she shold haue ben dede for my sake / me semeth it was my parte to saue her lyf and putte her from that daunger tyl better recouer myghte come / & now I thanke god sayd sir Launcelot that the pope hath made her pees(please add an English translation of this quotation)

1485, Sir Thomas Malory, “xiiij”, in Le Morte Darthur, book XX