Care and Recovery after Brain Surgery. After brain surgery, it will take time for the patient to return to his/her usual level of energy. Healing requires extra rest. The amount of time required to recover after brain surgery is different for each person and depends on: The procedure used to remove the brain tumor.
Synonyms: work, labor, toil 1, drudgery, travail. These nouns refer to physical or mental effort expended to produce or accomplish something. Work is the most widely applicable: hard work in the fields; did some work around the house on weekends; a first draft that still needs work.. To place or insert in by repeated or continuous effort: worked the pick into the lock. work off. To get rid of by work or effort: work off extra pounds; work off a debt.
Fig. to suffer punishment at the hand of someone. (Fig. on the image of pirates making their blindfolded captives die by walking off the end of a plank jutting out over the open sea.) Fred may think he can make the members of my department walk the plank, but we will fight back.Tom thought he could make John walk the plank, but John fought back.alk the plank. to have to leave your job After he was caught stealing from the company, the treasurer was forced to walk the plank. Etymology: based on the literal meaning of walk the plank (to punish someone who worked on a ship by forcing them to walk off the end of a narrow board into the sea).