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Another word for recover
VerbTo obtain again
To improve one's condition
To regain health
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- Reclaim implies recovery or restoration to a better or useful state to reclaim wasteland
- Recoup implies recovery of an equivalent in compensation I tried to recoup my losses
- Retrieve suggests diligent effort in regaining something that is beyond each reach he was determined to retrieve his honor
- Regain more strongly stresses a deliberate winning back of something that has been lost or taken from one to regain confidence, to regain a military objective
- Recover implies finding or getting back something that one has lost in any manner to recover stolen property, to recover one's self-possession
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