different between recovery vs recure

English

Alternative forms

• recovre (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English recoveree, from Old French recovree, from recovrer (“recover”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???k?v??i/, /???k?v?i/
• (weak vowel merger) IPA^(key): /???k?v??i/, /???k?v?i/

Noun

recovery (countable and uncountable, plural recoveries)

1. The act or process of regaining or repossession of something lost.
2. A return to normal health.
3. A return to former status or position.
   1. The act of regaining the natural position after curtseying.
   2. The act of regaining the position of guard after making an attack, in fencing, sparring, etc.
4. (economics) Renewed growth after a slump.
5. (law) A verdict giving somebody the right to recover debts or costs.
6. (mining) The extraction of an ore from a mine, or of a metal from an ore
7. (gaming) The ability to recover or regain health.

Derived terms

• recovery CD
• recovery position
• recovery truck
• recovery vehicle

Related terms

• recover

Translations

Middle English

Noun

recovery

1. Alternative form of recoveree

English

Etymology

Probably partly from Latin rec?r?re, and partly from a reduced form of recover.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???kj??(?)/
• Rhymes: -??(?)

Verb

recure (third-person singular simple present recures, present participle recuring, simple past and past participle recured)

1. (obsolete) To cure, heal.
   • c. 1513, John Lydgate, Troy Book

     Be eschaunge of hym ye myghte best recure
     Withoute strif youre owne man ageyn

2. (obsolete) To restore (something) to a good condition.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, I.v:

     Phoebus pure / In westerne waues his wearie wagon did recure.

3. (obsolete) To recover, regain (something that had been lost).
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.5:

     By this he had sweet life recur'd agayne […]

4. To arrive at; to reach; to attain.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Lydgate to this entry?)

Noun

recure (uncountable)

1. (obsolete) cure; remedy; recovery

   • But whom he hite, without recure he dies.