recuperate

To recover, especially from an illness; to get better from an illness or from exhaustion (or sometimes from a financial loss, etc).

To restore (someone or something) to health, strength, or currency; to revive or rehabilitate.

[...] of each province in 1842 and 1894 - that is, before the Taiping rebellion, and since China has recuperated her forces.

[...] one of many female poets who was trivialized and misrepresented for decades. When William Wordsworth recuperated her by praising her “Nocturnal Reverie,” he set what became a limiting factor in Finch's recovery: he treated her as a pre-Romantic ppoet of nature, and she became resituated in literary history as a much flatter or less complicated poet than she was in her lifetime.

To recover; to regain.

In LS, July emerges as a survivor and a storyteller with a traumatic past who has recuperated her relationship with her lost son. Her questioning and humorously subversive discourse gives emotional and textual depth to […]

To co-opt (a problematic or suspect idea) so that it becomes part of an accepted discourse; to reclaim.

Mannheim's purpose when elaborating his typology of ideology was, as we have seen above, to recuperate the concept of ideology for scientific politics, after having discarded elements of Manichean egocentricity.

She sought ultimately to recuperate the classical concept of the public realm against what she described, in negative terms, as the "rise of the social" characteristic of the modern world.