Definition of "recuperation" [re•cu•per•a•tion]

• Gradual restoration to health; convalescence. (noun)
• Instance of getting something back. (noun)
• Process by which radical or subversive ideas are co-opted by mainstream society. (noun)

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• "He had never been close to Samuel David and was shocked to learn that the boy had insisted on staying with him during his recuperation from the car wreck."
• "KAREN STOP IT I am still emotionally recuperation from the LAST non-YA novel you gushed about (The Vintner's Luck hush it took me a while to find and then I had to wait in agony for it to arrive by post)"
• "Collective Sigh is in recuperation ... best wishes!"