recuperate

Other forms of recuperate

past tense

recuperated·

present participle

recuperating·

third person

recuperates·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about recuperate

What does recuperate mean?

recuperate means "regain or make up for". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in recuperate?

recuperate has 4 syllables: re-cu-pe-rate. The stress falls on "cu". In IPA it is /ɹɪˈkupɚˌeɪt/.

What is another word for recuperate?

Close synonyms include recover, recoup, recover, go back, recover. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

What is the opposite of recuperate?

The recorded antonyms are deteriorate.

Is recuperate a common word?

recuperate is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with recuperate?

95 words rhyme with recuperate. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.