RECOVERING Synonyms: 113 Similar and Opposite Words

recovering 1 of 2

adjective

Definition of recovering

as in better

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verb

present participle of recover

as in retrieving

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 rebounding

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 healing

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 recycling

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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Adjective

Plus, its 3-hour battery life means less charging, and more recovering. — Talene Appleton, Men's Health, 31 Jan. 2023 She was taken to a hospital with punctures and lacerations and is stable and recovering. — San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Nov. 2022 Instead of ignoring that muscle or ligament strain, see a qualified health care provider and expect to spend a few weeks to a month or more recovering, depending on the severity of the injury, your age and other factors. — Melanie Radzicki McManus, CNN, 10 Aug. 2022 The Omaha police officer shot twice by a shoplifting suspect at Nebraska’s largest mall Friday is stable and recovering, police announced Saturday. — Michael Ruiz, Fox News, 14 Mar. 2021 Your Socialist Government spending flooded a recovering post COVID economy and created inflation! — Mark Heim | [email protected], al, 8 June 2022

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Two of the firefighters are now recovering at home and the third is expected to leave the hospital soon. — Brie Stimson, FOXNews.com, 27 June 2026 There are also calls for assistance in recovering the bodies of the deceased from the rubble. — Osmary Hernández, CNN Money, 27 June 2026 The real challenge is reducing denials and recovering the ones that should never have happened. — Venkata Ramya Ganti, Forbes.com, 30 June 2026 Koné will continue recovering from his fractured tibia and fibula. — Jaclyn Hendricks, PEOPLE, 2 July 2026 Tatum missed most of last season while recovering from an Achilles tear that happened during the 2025 playoffs. — Los Angeles Times, 1 July 2026 Then, the nation was recovering from the Vietnam War and the Watergate scandal. — Saige Miller, NPR, 1 July 2026 With Jayson Tatum missing nearly all of the 2025-26 season while recovering from a torn Achilles, Brown had the best season of his career. — Matt Schooley, CBS News, 1 July 2026 The 1980s, fortunately, brought with them a feminism committed to revisiting and recovering the literary canon of women writers. — Literary Hub, 1 July 2026

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Without better reporting, lawmakers and analysts will have to act with incomplete knowledge, essentially guessing effective tax rates based on limited and sometimes misleading reporting.

— Howard Gleckman, Forbes.com, 19 Sep. 2025
By better understanding how the AAC organizes vocal output in budgerigars, researchers hope to gain new insights into human speech disorders, such as aphasia and Parkinson’s disease, which can impair a person’s ability to produce language.

— Ella Jeffries, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 Mar. 2025

Definition of better

Verb

Cloudflare reports that more than half of AI crawler traffic involves retrieving pages that have not changed.

— Sandy Carter, Forbes.com, 1 July 2026
Because many of the dogs from Sacramento County were transferred to Miranda’s Rescue through a third party without the shelter’s knowledge, retrieving the dogs is legally complex, according to the release.

— Camryn Dadey, Sacbee.com, 29 June 2026

Definition of retrieving

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Technology stocks, including the semiconductor cohort , are rebounding and regaining some momentum after back-to-back days of declines.

— Jeff Marks,Morgan Chittum, CNBC, 6 July 2026
By Thursday, only a slight chance of an afternoon thunderstorm remains, with temperatures rebounding to around 91 degrees.

— Baltimore Sun staff, Baltimore Sun, 5 July 2026

Definition of rebounding

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Independence Day will not impact trash and recycling collection in Pittsburgh, which will be picked up as usual.

— Finch Walker, USA Today, 30 June 2026
Most experts talk about recycling these batteries to recover valuable materials such as lithium, nickel, and cobalt.

— Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 28 June 2026

Definition of recycling

Adjective

The same research reported that more than 80% of respondents felt AI improved productivity, while 59% reported a positive influence on code quality.

— Muhammad Muzammil Rawjani, Forbes.com, 1 July 2026
In 1785, the Pennsylvania General Assembly commissioned an improved road over Forbes, which was built for military speed, to accommodate wagons and horse travel.

— Salena Zito, Washington Post, 1 July 2026

Definition of improved

Verb

In order to compete, moving forward now requires absorbing and building other businesses entirely, recapturing layers that retail previously handed off.

— Brian Delp, Forbes.com, 29 June 2026
This is not a franchise that seems capable of really recapturing the magic of the circumstances that birthed it; some good things are best left untouched and alone.

— Wilson Chapman, IndieWire, 26 June 2026

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