recuperate
verb (used without object)
to recover from sickness or exhaustion; regain health or strength.
had recuperated
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past perfectof recuperate.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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He was arrested in 2021, after he returned to Moscow from Germany where he had recuperated from nerve agent poisoning that he blamed on the Kremlin.
From Washington Times ● Oct. 23, 2023
He planned to return to civilian life once he had recuperated.
From Reuters ● Mar. 28, 2023
He finally found what he wanted: photographs of British soldiers who had recuperated at the farm after the Second World War.
From The New Yorker ● Jun. 15, 2015
She and your mother shared a common place, La Vega, where Miss Lora was born and where your mother had recuperated after the Guerra Civil.
From The New Yorker ● Apr. 16, 2012
By the week’s end the baby had recuperated, but Bibi was not asked to return downstairs.
From "Interpreter of Maladies" by Jhumpa Lahiri
