recover
verb (used with object)
to get back or regain (something lost or taken away).
recoverer
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a word derived from
recover.
Example Sentences
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I used to say that, as a stroke recoverer, I believed in celebrating normality and the active life, as far as possible.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 13, 2017
Accident, the great discoverer and recoverer of lost goods, at last restored to us these good little children.
From The Ground-Ash by Mary Russell Mitford
For, for the recoverer of her favourite she had no words, and scarce a look.
From The Wild Geese by Stanley John Weyman
Petrarch, as is evinced by his letters, was the most assiduous recoverer and restorer of ancient MSS. that had yet existed.
From History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume II by John Dunlop
His lodging was above the workroom and shop of a recoverer of ancient coins and intaglios, skilful cleanser and mender of these and merchant to whom would buy.
From Foes by Mary Johnston
