recovers

Recovers is the third-person singular present tense form of the verb recover. It denotes the act of regaining possession, function, or health, or returning to a normal state after a disruption. The term can also refer to restoring data, systems, or conditions after loss or damage.

In common usage, recovers appears in contexts such as health, finance, and technology. For example, a patient may recover from an operation, an economy may recover after a recession, and a computer system may recover data from a damaged drive or from backups. The word is often followed by prepositional phrases such as from, after, or to indicate what is being regained or restored, as in “recovers from illness” or “recovers the files from backup.”

The verb recover has several related senses. It can imply physical improvement or return to wellness, the retrieval of an object or asset, or the restoration of functionality after failure. In information technology, data recovery is a common usage area, describing processes that retrieve lost or corrupted data. In broader terms, recovery can also refer to a return to normal conditions after economic, environmental, or personal setbacks.

Etymologically, recover derives from Latin recuperare, through Old French recouvrer, and entered English in the Middle Ages. The word retains a general sense of regaining something that was lost, with recovers specifically serving as the present-tense form for subject-verb agreement.