10 letters · 14 points in Scrabble
verb regain or make up for
verb regain a former condition after a financial loss
verb restore to good health or strength
originBorrowed from Latin recuperāre, alternative form of reciperāre (“get again, regain, recover”). Doublet of recover. The pronunciation without /j/ may have been influenced by the semantically similar, but etymologically distinct verb recoup.
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