recovers
USri-KUV-urz/ɹɪˈkʌvɚz/UKri-KUV-uhz/ɹɪˈkʌvəz/
- 1Third-person singular simple present of recover.
The patient recovers more easily when she gets plenty of rest.
Each spring the garden recovers from the damage of the winter frost.
Note
The -s form that a singular subject in the present demands: she recovers, the market recovers. It carries every use of recover, with or without an object. A diver recovers wreckage, a navigator recovers sight of a signal, a patient simply recovers, and a plaintiff recovers damages or, with no object at all, wins the suit. Only the old sense of reaching a place has fallen out of use.
recovers 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 → recovers: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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