Get or find back; recover the use of.

synonyms: find, regain, retrieve.

Roget 654: be in health etc. adj.. bloom, flourish.    keep body and soul together, keep on one's legs; enjoy good health, enjoy a good state of health; have a clean bill of health.    return to health; recover etc. 660; get better etc. (improve) 658; take a new lease of life, fresh lease of life; recruit; restore to health; cure etc. (restore) 660; tinker.    ... show more

Roget 658: improve; be better, become better, get better; mend, amend.    advance etc. (progress) 282; ascend etc. 305; increase etc. 35; fructify, ripen, mature; pick up, come about, rally, take a favorable turn; turn over a new leaf, turn the corner; raise one's head, sow one's wild oats; recover etc. 660.    be better etc. adj., be improved by; turn to right account, turn to good account, turn to best account; profit by, reap the benefit of; make good use of, make capital out of; place to good account.    render better, improve, mend, amend, better; ameliorate, meliorate; correct; decrassify^†.    improve upon, refine upon; rectify; enrich, mellow, elaborate, fatten.    promote, cultivate, advance, forward, enhance; bring forward, bring on; foster etc. 707; invigorate etc. (strengthen) 159.    touch up, rub up, brush up, furbish up, bolster up, vamp up, brighten up, warm up; polish, cook, make the most of, set off to advantage; prune; repair etc. (restore) 660; put in order etc. (arrange) 60.    review, revise; make corrections, make improvements etc. n.; doctor etc. (remedy) 662; purify, etc. 652.    relieve, refresh, infuse new blood into, recruit.    reform, remodel, reorganize; new model.    view in a new light, think better of, appeal from Philip drunk to Philip sober.    palliate, mitigate; lessen an evil etc. 36.    ... show more

Roget 660: return to the original state; recover, rally, revive; come come to, come round, come to oneself; pull through, weather the storm, be oneself again; get well, get round, get the better of, get over, get about; rise from one's ashes, rise from the grave; survive etc. (outlive) 110; resume, reappear; come to, come to life again; live again, rise again.    heal, skin over, cicatrize; right itself.    restore, put back, place in statu quo [Lat.]; reinstate, replace, reseat, rehabilitate, reestablish, reestate^†, reinstall.    reconstruct, rebuild, reorganize, reconstitute; reconvert; renew, renovate; regenerate; rejuvenate.    redeem, reclaim, recover, retrieve; rescue etc. (deliver) 672.    redress, recure^†; cure, heal, remedy, doctor, physic, medicate; break of; bring round, set on one's legs.    resuscitate, revive, reanimate, revivify, recall to life; reproduce etc. 163; warm up; reinvigorate, refresh etc. 689.    make whole, redintegrate^†; recoup etc. 790; make good, make all square; rectify, correct; put right, put to rights, set right, set to rights, set straight; set up; put in order etc. (arrange) 60; refit, recruit; fill up, fill up the ranks; reinforce.    repair; put in repair, remanufacture, put in thorough repair, put in complete repair; retouch, refashion, botch^†, vamp, tinker, cobble; do up, patch up, touch up, plaster up, vamp up; darn, finedraw^†, heelpiece^†; stop a gap, stanch, staunch, caulk, calk, careen, splice, bind up wounds.    ... show more

Roget 775: acquire, get, gain, win, earn, obtain, procure, gather; collect etc. (assemble) 72; pick, pickup; glean.    find; come upon, pitch upon, light upon; scrape up, scrape together; get in, reap and carry, net, bag, sack, bring home, secure; derive, draw, get in the harvest.    profit; make profit, draw profit, turn a quick profit; turn to profit, turn to account; make capital out of, make money by; obtain a return, reap the fruits of; reap an advantage, gain an advantage; turn a penny, turn an honest penny; make the pot boil, bring grist to the mill; make money, coin money, raise money; raise funds, raise the wind; fill one's pocket etc. (wealth) 803.    treasure up etc. (store) 636; realize, clear; produce etc. 161; take etc. 789.    get back, recover, regain, retrieve, revendicate^†, replevy [Law], redeem, come by one's own.    come by, come in for; receive etc. 785; inherit; step into a fortune, step into the shoes of; succeed to.    get hold of, get between one's finger and thumb, get into one's hand, get at; take possession, come into possession, enter into possession.    be profitable etc. adj.; pay, answer.    accrue etc. (be received) 785.    ... show more

Roget 789: take, catch, hook, nab, bag, sack, pocket, put into one's pocket; receive; accept.    reap, crop, cull, pluck; gather etc. (get) 775; draw.    appropriate, expropriate, impropriate^†; assume, possess oneself of; take possession of; commandeer; lay one's hands on, clap one's hands on; help oneself to; make free with, dip one's hands into, lay under contribution; intercept; scramble for; deprive of.    take away, carry away, bear away, take off, carry off, bear off; adeem^†; abstract; hurry off with, run away with; abduct; steal etc. 791; ravish; seize; pounce upon, spring upon; swoop to, swoop down upon; take by storm, take by assault; snatch, reave^†.    snap up, nip up, whip up, catch up; kidnap, crimp, capture, lay violent hands on.    get hold of, lay hold of, take hold of, catch hold of, lay fast hold of, take firm hold of; lay by the heels, take prisoner; fasten upon, grip, grapple, embrace, gripe, clasp, grab, clutch, collar, throttle, take by the throat, claw, clinch, clench, make sure of.    catch at, jump at, make a grab at, snap at, snatch at; reach, make a long arm, stretch forth one's hand.    take from, take away from; disseize^†; deduct etc. 38; retrench etc. (curtail) 201; dispossess, ease one of, snatch from one's grasp; tear from, tear away from, wrench from, wrest from, wring from; extort; deprive of, bereave; disinherit, cut off with a shilling.    oust etc. (eject) 297; divest; levy, distrain, confiscate; sequester, sequestrate; accroach^†; usurp; despoil, strip, fleece, shear, displume^†, impoverish, eat out of house and home; drain, drain to the dregs; gut, dry, exhaust, swallow up; absorb etc. (suck in) 296; draw off; suck the blood of, suck like a leech.    retake, resume; recover etc. 775.    ... show more

Dutch: herkrijgen, bergen, terugkrijgen, achterhalen, hervinden, terugvinden, weervinden

Get over an illness or shock.

synonyms: convalesce, recuperate.

Dutch: beteren, herstellen

Regain a former condition after a financial loss:
— We expect the stocks to recover to $2.90.

synonyms: go back, recuperate.

Regain or make up for.

synonyms: recoup, recuperate.

Roget 790: return, restore; give back, carry back, bring back; render, render up; give up; let go, unclutch; disgorge, regorge^†; regurgitate; recoup, reimburse, compensate, indemnify; remit, rehabilitate; repair etc. (make good) 660.    reinvest, revest, reinstate.    redeem, recover etc. (get back) 775; take back again.    revest, revert.    ... show more

Dutch: bijspijkeren, bijwerken

Reuse (materials from waste products).

synonym: reclaim.

Cover anew.