To recover health; to regain strength; to convalesce.

To recover; to regain; as, to recuperate the health or strength.

regain or make up for; "recuperate one's losses"

Nietzsche writes that "More and more, work enlists all good conscience on its side; the desire for joy already calls itself a 'need to recuperate' and is beginning to be ashamed of itself." Etymologically, to recuperate is to "take back" what was stolen from you; why not stop being a victim of robbery, instead? See: FREE TIME, LEISURELY, RELAX, VACATION.

get over an illness or shock; "The patient is recuperating"