recuperate
v.to get better after being sick or injured. You use this when you need time to rest and regain your strength.
v.to recover from illness, injury, or exhaustion. Often implies a period of rest or medical treatment to restore health.
“She needs a week of vacation to recuperate from her surgery.”
“After the long hike through the mountains, the team stayed in the cabin for two days to recuperate.”
“The athlete's career was nearly over after the knee injury, but a strict regimen of physical therapy allowed him to recuperate and return to the field within six months.”
“The radio host has spent the last month “recuperating, resting, and recovering” after surgery that went “incredibly well”, and said he hoped to return to work soon.”
Borrowed from Latin recuperāre, alternative form of reciperāre (“get again, regain, recover”). Doublet of recover. The pronunciation without /j/ may have been influenced by the semantically similar, but etymologically distinct verb recoup.
Etymology adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.