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Collocations for recover - verb

ADVERB

completely, fully
partially
mostly (esp. AmE)
only just
hardly, never quite, never really, not quite
She had hardly recovered from the birth of her last baby.
nicely, well
Your baby is recovering well.
enough, sufficiently
After a minute she recovered enough to speak.
easily
fast, quickly, rapidly, soon
gradually, slowly
eventually, finally
apparently
never
miraculously

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VERB + recover

help sb (to)
struggle to
Yates is struggling to recover from a serious knee injury.

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PREPOSITION

from
Mrs Burton was still recovering from her injuries in the hospital.

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Recover is used with these nouns as the subject:
alcoholic, economy

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Recover is used with these nouns as the object:
arrears, balance, body, composure, confidence, consciousness, cost, damage, file, health, investment, loss, memory, outlay, plutonium, poise, remains, sanity, strength, sum, uranium, use, wit

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