recovered
ri-KUV-urd/ɹɪˈkʌvɚd/UKri-KUV-uhd/ɹɪˈkʌvəd/
- 1Simple past and past participle of recover.
He recovered fully within a few weeks of the surgery.
Divers recovered several artifacts from the sunken ship.
Note
One regular -ed spelling does duty for both the simple past and the participle, so the surrounding construction tells you which you are reading. The transitive uses pass readily into the passive: the artifacts were recovered, sight of the signal was recovered. The legal sense needs no object at all (the plaintiff recovered). In perfect tenses it takes have, whichever meaning is in play.
recovered is a form of recover
recover, verb: To return to good health or to a stronger condition after illness, injury, or hardship. Full entry
- Forms
- recoverrecovers he/she/itrecovering -ing formrecovered past tense, past participle
- Spelling
- recover → recovered: add -ed
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /d/.
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