RECOVERED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does recovered mean? 

• RECOVERED (adjective)
  The adjective RECOVERED has 2 senses:

1. freed from illness or injury

2. found after being lost

  Familiarity information: RECOVERED used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RECOVERED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Freed from illness or injury

Synonyms:

cured; healed; recovered

Context example:

when the recovered patient tries to remember what occurred during his delirium

Similar:

well (in good health especially after having suffered illness or injury)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Found after being lost

Similar:

found (come upon unexpectedly or after searching)

 Context examples 

The percentage of the administered dose that is recovered from the specimen type specified in PPSPEC, over the interval between T1 and T2 divided by weight.

(Percent Recovered from T1 to T2 Normalized by Weight, NCI Thesaurus)

While the protein's presence or absence in the brain had little effect on sleep recovery, mice with higher levels of BMAL1 in their muscles recovered from sleep deprivation more quickly.

(Muscle, Not Brain, May Hold Answers to Some Sleep Disorders, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Mice and rats injected with lactoferrin 30 minutes after hemorrhages recovered faster and had reduced brain damage.

(Immune cells may heal bleeding brain after strokes, National Institutes of Health)

As soon as the dwarf had recovered from his first fright he cried with his shrill voice: Could you not have done it more carefully!

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

When I had recovered my breath, and had got rid of a stifling sensation in my throat, I rose up and went on.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Recovered, restored to healthy condition by natural processes, e.g. by scar formation; freed from illness or injury.

(Healed, NCI Thesaurus)

However, upon waking, I found myself much recovered.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

The percentage of the dose that is recovered from the specimen type, from dosing to end of the current collection interval divided by the body mass index.

(Percent Recovered Normalized by Body Mass Index, NCI Thesaurus)

Such a letter was not to be soon recovered from.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

The percentage of the dose that is recovered from the specimen type, from dosing to end of the current collection interval divided by the weight.

(Percent Recovered Normalized by Weight, NCI Thesaurus)