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Recuperate vs Subsided - What's the difference?

recuperate | subsided |

As verbs the difference between recuperate and subsided

is that recuperate is to recover, especially from an illness; to get better from an illness while subsided is past tense of subside.

recuperate

English

Verb

(recuperat)
  • To recover, especially from an illness; to get better from an illness.
  • (sociology) To co-opt subversive ideas for mainstream use
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  • Derived terms

    * recuperation

    subsided

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (subside)
  • Synonyms

    * worn off

    subside

    English

    Verb

    (subsid)
  • To sink or fall to the bottom; to settle, as lees.
  • To tend downward; to become lower; to descend; to sink.
  • To fall into a state of quiet; to cease to rage; to be calmed; to settle down; to become tranquil; to abate.
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  • *:Long after his cigar burnt bitter, he sat with eyes fixed on the blaze. When the flames at last began to flicker and subside , his lids fluttered, then drooped?; but he had lost all reckoning of time when he opened them again to find Miss Erroll in furs and ball-gown kneeling on the hearth and heaping kindling on the coals,.