recuperate

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   To recover, especially from an illness

   To recover, especially from an illness; to get better from an illness or from exhaustion (or sometimes from a financial loss, etc).

2. 2

   To restore (someone or something) to health, strength, or currency

   To restore (someone or something) to health, strength, or currency; to revive or rehabilitate.

   • [...] of each province in 1842 and 1894 - that is, before the Taiping rebellion, and since China has recuperated her forces.
3. 3

   To recover

   To recover; to regain.

   • In LS, July emerges as a survivor and a storyteller with a traumatic past who has recuperated her relationship with her lost son. Her questioning and humorously subversive discourse gives emotional and textual depth to […]
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   1. 4

      To co-opt (a problematic or suspect idea) so that it becomes part of an accepted discourse

      To co-opt (a problematic or suspect idea) so that it becomes part of an accepted discourse; to reclaim.

      • Mannheim's purpose when elaborating his typology of ideology was, as we have seen above, to recuperate the concept of ideology for scientific politics, after having discarded elements of Manichean egocentricity.
      • She sought ultimately to recuperate the classical concept of the public realm against what she described, in negative terms, as the "rise of the social" characteristic of the modern world.
      • […] there is also the danger […] that such a critique recuperates gender in terms that quite literally invisiblize the very issues of race and ethnicity […]

The neighborhood

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