Recovery vs Recuperate - What's the difference?

As a noun recovery

is the act or process of regaining or repossession of something lost.

to recover, especially from an illness; to get better from an illness.

(wikipedia recovery)

* recovre (obsolete)

(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).

* recovery CD * recovery position

(recuperat)

To recover, especially from an illness; to get better from an illness.

(sociology) To co-opt subversive ideas for mainstream use

* 2002 , Roger Beebe, ?Denise Fulbrook, ?Ben Saunders, Rock Over the Edge: Transformations in Popular Music Culture

* recuperation

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