recuperate from

recuperate from (someone or something)

1. To return to good health after some illness or injury. Often used in the continuous tense to indicate an ongoing recovery. My brother is still recuperating from malaria after coming back from his trip to Kenya. I'm still recuperating from a broken ankle, so I'm afraid I won't be coming on the ski trip in December.
2. To return to stable or composed position, status, or mindset after some difficult, troublesome, or threatening situation. Things are better on the whole, but many businesses haven't yet recuperated from the economic crisis. It will take me a day or two to recuperate from that visit from my in-laws.
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Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

recuperate from something

to recover from something; to be cured or to heal after something. I hope that you recuperate from your illness soon. Has she recuperated from her surgery yet?
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McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.
See also:
  • recuperate
  • recuperate from (someone or something)
  • recover
  • recover from
  • recover from (someone or something)
  • have none of
  • have none of (something)
  • work on
  • work on (someone or something)
  • pour it on
References in periodicals archive
After being given the nod by the medics to recuperate from home, Owira was set to be out of action for at least six months but he revealed that his local physiotherapist has set June as his expected month to begin light training.
LAHORE -- Veteran all rounder Shoaib Malik has been ruled out of T20 series against New Zealand and coming back home to recuperate from the symptoms of the delayed concussion he is currently showing after being struck on the head by a ball during the fourth one day international.
The committee was of the opinion that it should give him the best chance to recuperate from the symptoms of the delayed concussion he is currently showing.
LAHORE -- Veteran all-rounder Shoaib Malik has been ruled out of T20 series against New Zealand and coming back home to recuperate from the symptoms of the delayed concussion he is currently showing after being struck on the head by a ball during the fourth one day international.
It is giving your body, especially your digestive system, the time to rest and recuperate from the massive intake it experienced," he explained.
MANILA -- Cavite Vice Governor Jolo Revilla will take a 30-day leave to recuperate from the injuries he sustained from "accidentally" shooting himself.
Washington, August 22 (ANI): Researchers at the National Institute for Physiological Sciences (NIPS) in Japan have found in a study on mice that, upon cerebral stroke in one side of the brain, another side rewires its neural circuits to recuperate from damaged neural function.
It's been thought that most postspawn fish meander hundreds of miles into the abyss of their home waters of lakes Superior, Huron, Michigan, Erie, and Ontario, to recuperate from the rigors of spawning before making their magnum migrations to mainlake basins to feed on summer's banquet of baitfish.
Later they are separated, with Ma put into a convent's hospice to recuperate from what seems to be tuberculoses, and June is in an orphanage on the edge of a red-light district.
But Commissioner Mary Gall has taken a temporary leave to recuperate from necessary medical procedures and is not expected back full time at the Commission until some time in October.
The ozone hole over Antarctica this year fell short of 1998's record size, providing a piece of good news about the atmosphere's ability to recuperate from an overdose of pollutants.
Deep water running caught the attention of athletes and coaches when Joan Benoit Samuelson used the pool to recuperate from an injury and returned to running to win an Olympic gold medal.
But the movement to recuperate from birth at home left a gap: Mothers still needed follow-up care.
hotel industry has been straggling to recuperate from overdevelopment in the 1980s and a downturn in travel during the early 1990s.
In addition, EEC reforms for universal banking should bring more well-capitalized banking institutions into the securities business as they try to recuperate from the client loss they suffered from the trend toward securitization among prime corporations.