After weeks of rest and proper nutrition, the injured bird slowly recovered its ability to fly.
经过数周的休息和适当营养，受伤的鸟逐渐恢复了飞行能力。
Economist Daniel Voss contends that current vacancy rates reflect a temporary adjustment period, and that as leases expire and companies redesign offices for hybrid collaboration, downtown demand will largely recover.
From a Cross-Text Connections question · Craft and Structure
A study of hospital patients found that those assigned to rooms with a view of a natural landscape recovered from surgery and were discharged, on average, a day earlier than patients in otherwise identical rooms with a view of a brick wall.
From a Inferences question · Information and Ideas
A study of hospital patients found that those assigned to rooms painted a soft green recovered from minor surgery and were discharged, on average, several hours earlier than patients in otherwise identical rooms painted stark white.
From a Inferences question · Information and Ideas
Which choice best defines “recover”?
C — Get better, regain. “recover” means get better, regain.
Which word means “get better, regain”?
D — recover. “recover” means get better, regain.
recover — get better, regain. In Chinese: 恢复，康复.
recover is pronounced /rɪˈkʌvər/.
After weeks of rest and proper nutrition, the injured bird slowly recovered its ability to fly. (经过数周的休息和适当营养，受伤的鸟逐渐恢复了飞行能力。)
recuperate, regain, restore — all close in meaning to recover (get better, regain).
deteriorate, lose — each the opposite of recover (get better, regain).
Yes. recover is on the SAT Prep Basic list — the everyday academic words the SAT assumes you already have. The Digital SAT does not test vocabulary in isolation; words like this one are tested through Words in Context questions, where you choose the word that completes a passage most logically and precisely.
re(again)+cover(cover).