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Reform vs Recover - What's the difference?

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Reform is a related term of recover.


As nouns the difference between reform and recover

is that reform is reform while recover is (label) recovery.

As a verb recover is

to get back, regain (a physical thing lost etc) or recover can be to cover again.

reform

English

(wikipedia reform) (Webster 1913)

Noun

(en noun)
  • Amendment of what is defective, vicious, corrupt, or depraved; reformation; as, reform of elections; reform of government.

    • Synonyms

    * reformation * amendment * rectification * correction

    Derived terms

    * monetary reform

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To put into a new and improved form or condition; to restore to a former good state, or bring from bad to good; to change from worse to better; to amend; to correct.
    • to reform''' a profligate man; to '''reform corrupt manners or morals
  • * Jonathan Swift
    • The example alone of a vicious prince will corrupt an age; but that of a good one will not reform it.
  • To return to a good state; to amend or correct one's own character or habits; as, a person of settled habits of vice will seldom reform.
  • (intransitive) To form again or in a new configuration.
    • This product contains reformed meat.
    The regiment reformed after surviving the first attack.
    The pop group reformed for one final tour.
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2012 , date=August 21 , author=Jason Heller , title=The Darkness: Hot Cakes (Music Review) , work=The Onion AV Club citation , page= , passage=Since first tossing its cartoonish, good-time cock-rock to the masses in the early ’00s, The Darkness has always fallen back on this defense: The band is a joke, but hey, it’s a good joke. With Hot Cakes —the group’s third album, and first since reforming last year—the laughter has died. In its place is the sad wheeze of the last surviving party balloon slowly, listlessly deflating.}}

    Synonyms

    * amend * correct * rectify * mend * repair * better * improve * restore * reclaim

    Anagrams

    * former ----

    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

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