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Recovered vs Raptured - What's the difference?

recovered | raptured |

As verbs the difference between recovered and raptured

is that recovered is (recover) while raptured is (rapture).

recovered

English

Verb

(head)
  • (recover)

    • recover

    English

    Alternative forms

    * recovre (obsolete)

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) recoverer and (etyl) recovrer, from (etyl) recuperare.

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To get back, regain (a physical thing lost etc.).
  • * Bible, 1 Sam. xxx. 18
    • David recovered all that the Amalekites had carried away.
  • * , chapter=22
    • , title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=Not unnaturally, “Auntie” took this communication in bad part. Thus outraged, she showed herself to be a bold as well as a furious virago. Next day she found her way to their lodgings and tried to recover her ward by the hair of the head.}}
  • To return to, resume (a given state of mind or body).
  • (obsolete) To reach (a place), arrive at.
  • * Fuller
    • With much ado the Christians recovered to Antioch.
  • * Shakespeare
    • The forest is not three leagues off; / If we recover that, we're sure enough.
  • * Hales
    • Except he could recover one of the Cities of Refuge he was to die.
  • (archaic) To restore to good health, consciousness, life etc.
  • * Shakespeare
    • The wine in my bottle will recover him.
  • *, vol.I, New York, 2001, p.233-4:
    • Cnelius a physiciangave him a clyster, by which he was speedily recovered .
  • * Bible, 2. Tim. ii. 26
    • that they may recover themselves out of the snare of the devil, who are taken captive by him
  • (archaic) To make good by reparation; to make up for; to retrieve; to repair the loss or injury of.
    • to recover lost time
  • * Rogers
    • Even good men have many failings and lapses to lament and recover .
  • (archaic) To get better from; to get over.
  • * Cowley
    • I do hope to recover my late hurt.
  • * De Foe
    • when I had recovered a little my first surprise
  • To get better, regain one's health.
  • To regain one's composure, balance etc.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title= The China Governess, chapter=19
    • , passage=Meanwhile Nanny Broome was recovering from her initial panic and seemed anxious to make up for any kudos she might have lost, by exerting her personality to the utmost. She took the policeman's helmet and placed it on a chair, and unfolded his tunic to shake it and fold it up again for him.}}
  • (legal) To obtain a judgement; to succeed in a lawsuit.
    • The plaintiff has recovered in his suit.
  • (legal) To gain as compensation or reparation.
    • to recover''' damages in trespass; to '''recover debt and costs in a suit at law
    to recover lands in ejectment or common recovery
  • (legal) To gain by legal process.
    • to recover judgement against a defendant
    Related terms
    * recovery

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (label) Recovery.
  • *:
  • *:It was neuer in my thoughte saide la?celot to withholde the quene from my lord Arthur / but in soo moche she shold haue ben dede for my sake / me semeth it was my parte to saue her lyf and putte her from that daunger tyl better recouer myghte come / & now I thanke god sayd sir Launcelot that the pope hath made her pees
  • (label) A position of holding a firearm during exercises, whereby the lock is at shoulder height and the sling facing out.

    • Etymology 2

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    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To cover again.
    • (Sir Walter Scott)
  • (roofing) To add a new roof membrane or steep-slope covering over an existing one.

    • Anagrams

    *

    raptured

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (rapture)

    • rapture

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Extreme pleasure, happiness or excitement.
  • * Addison
    • Music, when thus applied, raises in the mind of the hearer great conceptions; it strengthens devotion, and advances praise into rapture .
  • * 2014 , , " Southampton hammer eight past hapless Sunderland in barmy encounter", The Guardian , 18 October 2014:
    • Sunderland’s right-back, Santiago Vergini, inadvertently gave Southampton the lead by lashing the ball into his own net in the 12th minute, and that signalled the start of a barmy encounter that had home fans in raptures and Sunderland in tatters.
  • * 1918 , (Edgar Rice Burroughs), Chapter VII
    • My heart filled with rapture then, and it fills now as it has each of the countless times I have recalled those dear words, as it shall fill always until death has claimed me. I may never see her again; she may not know how I love her--she may question, she may doubt; but always true and steady, and warm with the fires of love my heart beats for the girl who said that night: "I love you beyond all conception."
  • In some forms of fundamentalist Protestant eschatology, the event when Jesus returns and gathers the souls of living believers. (Usually "the rapture.")
  • (obsolete) The act of kidnapping]] or [[abduct, abducting, especially the forceful carrying off of a woman.
  • (obsolete) Rape; ravishment; sexual violation.
  • (obsolete) The act of carrying, conveying, transporting or sweeping along by force of movement; the force of such movement; the fact of being carried along by such movement.
  • * Chapman
    • That 'gainst a rock, or flat, her keel did dash / With headlong rapture .
  • * 1888 James Russell Lowell, Agassiz 6.1.21:
    • With the rapture of great winds to blow / About earth's shaken coignes.
  • A spasm; a fit; a syncope; delirium.
    • (Shakespeare)

    See also

    * ("rapture" on Wikipedia)

    References

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    Verb

    (raptur)
  • (dated) To cause to experience great happiness or excitement.
  • * 2012 , The Books They Gave Me: True Stories of Life, Love, and Lit , page 138:
    • She raptured me in summer by giving me Fitzgerald's flawed and gorgeous masterpiece, the book that held his tortured heart.
  • (dated) To experience great happiness or excitement.
  • To take (someone) off the Earth and bring (them) to Heaven as part of the .
  • * 2010 , Gerald Mizejewski, ?Jerimiah Asher, Charting the Supernatural Judgements of Planet Earth (page 233)
    • The third person raptured by God into heaven was Elijah
  • * 2011 , Lexi George, Demon Hunting in Dixie (ISBN 0758271816)
    • “Praise the Lord, he's been raptured.” Good grief. “I don't think so, Mrs. Farris. 'Course, I'm Episcopalian, and I'm pretty sure we don't get raptured'. But, Baptists get ' raptured , don't they?”
  • (rare) To take part in the .
  • * 2001 , Allan Appel, Club Revelation: A Novel , page 320:
    • "If she's raptured ," Ellen said to them on the fifth night after Marylee's disappearance, as they sat on the roof of the building on their old beanbags and rusting garden furniture hauled up from the Museum, "if that's what happened to her, then "
  • (uncommon) To state (something, transitive) or talk (intransitive) rapturously.
  • * 1885 , Edward Everett Hale, G.T.T.; or, The Wonderful Adventures of a Pullman , page 158:
    • And then the flowers! May-day indeed. Hester had been in Switzerland at the end of June, years on years before, and often had she raptured to Effie about the day's ride, in which they collected a hundred varieties of flowers, most of them new to them.
  • * 2003 , Jessica Peers, Asparagus Dreams , page 75:
    • Pulling her leggings down over unshaven legs, she raptured "I'm dry!" to her audience.
  • * 2003 , Beverly Adam, Irish Magic , page 121:
    • They're called angora with wonderfully long, soft fleece,” she raptured on about her first venture.
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