English

Verb

recuperate ‎(third-person singular simple present recuperates, present participle recuperating, simple past and past participle recuperated)

1. To recover, especially from an illness; to get better from an illness.
2. (sociology) To co-opt subversive ideas for mainstream use
   • 2002, Roger Beebe, ‎Denise Fulbrook, ‎Ben Saunders, Rock Over the Edge: Transformations in Popular Music Culture

     […] there is also the danger […] that such a critique recuperates gender in terms that quite literally invisiblize the very issues of race and ethnicity […]

Derived terms

• recuperation

Translations

Italian

Verb

recuperate

1. second-person plural present indicative of recuperare
2. second-person plural imperative of recuperare
3. feminine plural of recuperato

Latin

Verb

recuperāte

1. second-person plural present active imperative of recuperō