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recuperation

recuperation noun: gradual restoration to health.

Noun

recuperation (usually uncountable, plural recuperations)

  1. (usually) Gradual restoration to health.
  2. (usually) Instance of getting something back.
  3. (usually) Process by which radical or subversive ideas are co-opted by mainstream society.
    • [Raoul Vaneigem] I have nothing in common with the spectacular recuperation of a project that, in my case, has remained revolutionary throughout.2009 May, Hans Ulrich Obrist, “In Conversation with Raoul Vaneigem”, in e-flux, archived from the original on 07 Sep 2009
    Antonyms:
    detournement

recuperation meaning in Tamil, Bengali and Malayalam

recuperation in Tamil

ஈடு செய்தல், மீள்ப்பெறல்

recuperation in Bengali

recuperation, recovery
আরোগ্য ārōgya

recuperation in Malayalam

സാവധാനം ആരോഗ്യം വീണ്ടെടുക്കൽ, രോഗമുക്തി‌

Synonyms of recuperation

Antonyms

Forms of recuperation

pluralrecuperations

Origin of recuperation

Borrowed from Latin recuperātiō. By surface analysis, recuperate + -ion.

Words formed from recuperation

Questions about recuperation

What does recuperation mean?
Recuperation means gradual restoration to health.
What is recuperation in Tamil?
Recuperation in Tamil is ஈடு செய்தல், மீள்ப்பெறல். See Recuperation meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is recuperation?
Recuperation is a noun.
What is the plural of recuperation?
The plural of recuperation is recuperations.

Words near recuperation in the dictionary

  1. recuperance
  2. recuperate
  3. recuperated
  4. recuperates
  5. recuperating
  6. recuperation
  7. recuperations
  8. recuperative
  9. recuperative thermal oxidizer
  10. recuperative thermal oxidizers
  11. recuperatively

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Adapted from Wiktionary: recuperation (page history and authors); recuperation (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); আরোগ্য (Bengali) (page history and authors); recuperation (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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