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Recovery vs Recure - What's the difference?

recovery | recure |

As nouns the difference between recovery and recure

is that recovery is the act or process of regaining or repossession of something lost while recure is (obsolete) cure; remedy; recovery.

As a verb recure is

(obsolete) to cure, heal.

recovery

English

(wikipedia recovery)

Alternative forms

* recovre (obsolete)

Noun

(recoveries)
  • The act or process of regaining or repossession of something lost.
  • A return to normal health.
  • A return to former status.
  • Renewed growth after a slump (economy).

    • Derived terms

    * recovery CD * recovery position

    Related terms

    * recover

    recure

    English

    Verb

    (recur)
  • (obsolete) To cure, heal.
  • * Lydgate
    • No medicine might avail his sickness to recure .
  • (obsolete) To restore (something) to a good condition.
  • *1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , I.v:
  • *:Phoebus pure / In westerne waues his wearie wagon did recure .
  • (obsolete) To recover, regain (something that had been lost).
  • *1590 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , III.5:
  • *:By this he had sweet life recur'd agayne [...].
  • To arrive at; to reach; to attain.
    • (Lydgate)

    Noun

    (-)
  • (obsolete) cure; remedy; recovery
  • * Fairfax
    • But whom he hite, without recure he dies.