The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 7 letter word REBOUND
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More clues leading to the result REBOUND
- Recover or recovered like books?
- Recover, be on the up in the course of events
- Overthrow of monarch sure to have an adverse effect
- English lamb finally entering ring — spring back?
- Get a kickback? That’s one way books are fixed
- Provided with new cover, make a comeback
- Reverberation of gong echoed inside head then died
- Put a new cover on book to return
- Hop back inside before Bo undresses
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The straight part
We know that "Recover" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case recover = rebound.The cryptic/wordplay part
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What does REBOUND mean?
REBOUND noun- The recoil of an object bouncing off another.
- A return to health or well-being; a recovery.
- An effort to recover from a setback.
- A romantic partner with whom one begins a relationship (or the relationship one begins) for the sake of getting over a previous, recently-ended romantic relationship.
- The strike of the ball after it has bounced off a defending player, the crossbar or goalpost.
- An instance of catching the ball after it has hit the rim or backboard without a basket being scored, generally credited to a particular player.
- To bound or spring back from a force.
- To give back an echo.
- To jump up or get back up again.
- To send back; to reverberate.
- To bind again.
- To associate a command with a different key.