RECOVERS Synonyms: 65 Similar and Opposite Words

recovers

verb

present tense third-person singular of recover

as in regains

to get again in one's possession after fishing around in the garbage for 10 minutes, I was able to recover my lost keys

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as in rebounds

to regain a former or normal state after a disastrous first half, the team was able to recover and pull off a victory

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as in heals

to become healthy and strong again after illness or weakness I see you're recovering well from the accident

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as in recycles

to obtain (a raw material) by separating it from a by-product or waste product the process of recovering aluminum from old cans

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Recent Examples of recovers SpaceX routinely recovers and reuses Falcon 9 booster stages with near-flawless performance. — Stephen Clark, ArsTechnica, 18 Aug. 2026 Hicks’ wife Belen Hernandez continues to run their restaurant, with their children helping out while their father recovers. — Ella Gonzales, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 17 Aug. 2026 Is Cristhian Mosquera ready to deputise until William Saliba recovers from his back injury? — Chris Weatherspoon, New York Times, 14 Aug. 2026 Lake Nona’s Eli Nickerson has the ball slip out of his hand and Seminole recovers the fumble. — Buddy Collings, The Orlando Sentinel, 14 Aug. 2026 But the team decided to use caution as Sabally recovers from a second head injury within the last year. — Fiifi Frimpong, New York Daily News, 13 Aug. 2026 For this reason, Serrano’s work, with its uncannily beatific admixture of the sacred and the profane, recovers something of the original impact of Paul’s scandalous proclamation. — The New Yorker, New Yorker, 10 Aug. 2026 Indeed, a margin call does not care how good your research is or whether a stock eventually recovers. — Andrew Graham, Forbes.com, 6 Aug. 2026 Thus, Williams is on a daily pitch count this camp, such as 20 plays Wednesday, according to Chris Foerster, the 49ers’ offensive line coach who’s also their frontman while Kyle Shanahan recovers from a July 14 car crash. — Cam Inman, Mercury News, 5 Aug. 2026

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Verb

When an agent retrieves a record for a specific task, that task context should be attached as metadata to any derived output, so a downstream agent or process inherits the same access constraint rather than starting from a clean slate.

— Gopichand Mannava, Forbes.com, 12 Aug. 2026
Next, an autonomous drone retrieves the order and flies to the patient's address.

— Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 11 Aug. 2026

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Nike recycles the shoes to make new athletic apparel, sports courts, and tracks, playgrounds, and more.

— Karen Brewer Grossman, Southern Living, 16 Aug. 2026
With fellow voice actor and Rugrats star Michael Bell, Chartoff invented the Grayway Rotating Drain, which recycles used water from showers and sinks for other household uses.

— Madeline Boardman, Entertainment Weekly, 11 Aug. 2026

Definition of recycles

Verb

Oh, there’s a pipe dream out there, all about a once-great player who recaptures the old magic, but that’s hardly the appropriate mood.

— Bruce Jenkins, San Francisco Chronicle, 6 Feb. 2026
While not a full-fledged continuation of the fantastic action show Lycoris Recoil, this series of shorts recaptures the other half of the 2022 girls-with-guns series.

— Kambole Campbell, Vulture, 9 Dec. 2025

Definition of recaptures

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The real end of Oak Street comes not from the feet and chompers of the dinosaurs but from a moviemaker who revives the idyllic 1980s only to desecrate them with wokeness.

— Peter Tonguette, The Washington Examiner, 22 Aug. 2026
Today’s manosphere revives an old script Old, bad ideas do not simply fade away.

— Michael Kimmel, Time, 15 Aug. 2026

Definition of revives

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Over long periods, markets reach new highs because businesses grow earnings, productivity improves, dividends increase, innovation continues and the economy expands.

— Steve Booren, Denver Post, 16 Aug. 2026
Dallas improves to 3-2-2 on the road against Austin and leads the overall series 9-2-3 with a plus-nine goal differential.

— ABC News, ABC News, 16 Aug. 2026

Definition of improves

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McIlroy rallies from a three-shot deficit at the turn, to shoot a 3-under 68 to beat Phil Mickelson by one stroke.

— Assistant Sports Editor, Los Angeles Times, 10 Aug. 2026
Industry rallies together Huang briefly explained Nvidia’s position in his debut X post.

— Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 24 July 2026