Recover vs. Rescue — What's the Difference?

Return to a normal state of health, mind, or strength

Rescue comprises responsive operations that usually involve the saving of life, or the urgent treatment of injuries after an accident or a dangerous situation. Tools used might include search and rescue dogs, mounted search and rescue horses, helicopters, the "jaws of life", and other hydraulic cutting and spreading tools used to extricate individuals from wrecked vehicles.

Find or regain possession of (something stolen or lost)

To cause to be free from danger, imprisonment, or difficulty; save.

Remove or extract (an energy source or industrial chemical) for use, reuse, or waste treatment

To save from any violence, danger or evil.

A defined position of a firearm forming part of a military drill

To free or liberate from confinement or other physical restraint.

To get back (something lost or taken away), especially by making an effort

To recover forcibly.

To search for, find, and bring back

To deliver by arms, notably from a siege.

To get back control or possession of (land) by military conquest or legal action.

(figuratively) To remove or withdraw from a state of exposure to evil and sin.

To have (the use, possession, or control of something) restored

(figuratively) To achieve something positive under difficult conditions.

To regain the use of (a faculty) or be restored to (a normal or usual condition)

An act or episode of rescuing, saving.

To cause to be restored to a normal or usual condition

A liberation, freeing.

To discover or be able to follow (a trail or scent) after losing it.

The forcible ending of a siege; liberation from similar military peril

To procure (usable substances, such as metal) from unusable substances, such as ore or waste.

A special airliner flight to bring home passengers who are stranded

To bring (land) into or return to a suitable condition for use; reclaim.

A rescuee.

To bring under observation again

To free or deliver from any confinement, violence, danger, or evil; to liberate from actual restraint; to remove or withdraw from a state of exposure to evil; as, to rescue a prisoner from the enemy; to rescue seamen from destruction.

To regain a normal or usual condition, as of health

The act of rescuing; deliverance from restraint, violence, or danger; liberation.

To receive a favorable judgment in a lawsuit.

The forcible retaking, or taking away, against law, of things lawfully distrained.

(transitive) To get back, to regain (a physical thing; in astronomy and navigation, sight of a thing or a signal).

Recovery or preservation from loss or danger;

(transitive) to salvage, to extricate, to rescue (a thing or person)

Free from harm or evil

(transitive) To replenish to, resume (a good state of mind or body).

Take forcibly from legal custody;

To obtain a positive judgement; to win in a lawsuit.

To gain as compensation or reparation, usually by formal legal process

To reach (a place), arrive at.

To restore to good health, consciousness, life etc.

To make good by reparation; to make up for; to retrieve; to repair the loss or injury of.

(intransitive) To regain one's composure, balance etc.

To get better, to regain health or prosperity.

To recover from

To cover again.

(roofing) To add a new roof membrane or steep-slope covering over an existing one.

(obsolete) Recovery.

(military) A position of holding a firearm during exercises, whereby the lock is at shoulder height and the sling facing out.

(dated) The forward movement in rowing, after one stroke to take another (recovery)

To cover again.

To get or obtain again; to get renewed possession of; to win back; to regain.

To make good by reparation; to make up for; to retrieve; to repair the loss or injury of; as, to recover lost time.

To restore from sickness, faintness, or the like; to bring back to life or health; to cure; to heal.

To overcome; to get the better of, - as a state of mind or body.

To rescue; to deliver.

To gain by motion or effort; to obtain; to reach; to come to.

To gain as a compensation; to obtain in return for injury or debt; as, to recover damages in trespass; to recover debt and costs in a suit at law; to obtain title to by judgement in a court of law; as, to recover lands in ejectment or common recovery; to gain by legal process; as, to recover judgement against a defendant.

To regain health after sickness; to grow well; to be restored or cured; hence, to regain a former state or condition after misfortune, alarm, etc.; - often followed by of or from; as, to recover from a state of poverty; to recover from fright.

To make one's way; to come; to arrive.

To obtain a judgement; to succeed in a lawsuit; as, the plaintiff has recovered in his suit.

Recovery.

Get or find back; recover the use of;

Get over an illness or shock;

Regain a former condition after a financial loss;

Regain or make up for;

Of materials from waste products

Cover anew;