recuperate from (someone or something)
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?
See also: recuperate
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.
- recuperate
- recuperate from
- 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