Synonyms of the word

recovery

• n. The act or process of regaining or repossession of something lost.
• n. A return to normal health.
• n. A return to former status or position.
• n. (economics) Renewed growth after a slump.
• n. (mining) The extraction of an ore from a mine, or of a metal from an ore.

advance

• v. To bring forward; to move towards the front; to make to go on.
• v. (obsolete) To raise; to elevate.
• v. To raise to a higher rank; to promote.
• v. To accelerate the growth or progress of; to further; to forward; to help on; to aid; to heighten.
• v. To bring to view or notice; to offer or propose; to show.
• v. To make earlier, as an event or date; to hasten.
• v. To furnish, as money or other value, before it becomes due, or in aid of an enterprise; to supply beforehand.
• v. To raise to a higher point; to enhance; to raise in rate.
• v. (intransitive) To move forwards, to approach.
• v. (obsolete) To extol; to laud.
• n. A forward move; improvement or progression.
• n. An amount of money or credit, especially given as a loan, or paid before it is due; an advancement.
• n. An addition to the price; rise in price or value.
• n. (in the plural) An opening approach or overture, especially of an unwelcome or sexual nature.
• adj. Completed before need or a milestone event.
• adj. Preceding.
• adj. Forward.

betterment

• n. An improvement.
• n. (law) An improvement to a property that adds to its value.

convalescence

• n. A gradual healing after illness or injury.
• n. The period of time spent healing.

deed

• n. An action or act; something that is done.
• n. A brave or noteworthy action; a feat or exploit.
• n. Action or fact, as opposed to rhetoric or deliberation.
• n. (law) A legal contract showing bond in form of a document.
• v. (informal) To transfer real property by deed.

effort

• n. The work involved in performing an activity; exertion.
• n. An endeavour.
• n. A force acting on a body in the direction of its motion.
• v. (uncommon, intransitive) To make an effort.
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To stimulate.

exploit

• n. A heroic or extraordinary deed.
• n. An achievement.
• n. (computing) A program or technique that exploits a vulnerability in other software.
• v. (transitive) To use for one’s own advantage.
• v. (transitive) To forcibly deprive someone of something to which she or he has a natural right.

feat

• n. A relatively rare or difficult accomplishment.
• adj. (archaic) Dexterous in movements or service; skilful; neat; pretty.
• v. (obsolete) To form; to fashion.

healing

• n. The process where the cells in the body regenerate and repair themselves.
• n. An act of healing, as by a faith healer.
• n. The psychological process of dealing with a problem or problems.
• v. present participle of heal.

improvement

• n. The act of improving; advancement or growth; a bettering.
• n. The act of making profitable use or application of anything, or the state of being profitably employed;…
• n. The state of being improved; betterment; advance.
• n. Something which is improved.
• n. Increase; growth; progress; advance.
• n. (in the plural) Valuable additions or betterments, for example buildings, clearings, drains, fences, etc…
• n. (Patent Laws): A useful addition to, or modification of, a machine, manufacture, or composition.

recuperation

• n. Gradual restoration to health; convalescence.
• n. Instance of getting something back.
• n. (sociology) Process by which radical or subversive ideas are co-opted by mainstream society.

retrieval

• n. the act of retrieving or something retrieved.
• n. (computing) the operation of accessing data, either from memory or from a storage device.
• n. the cognitive process of bringing stored information into consciousness.