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Definition of Recovering
1. Adjective. Returning to health after illness or debility. "Convalescent children are difficult to keep in bed"
Similar to: Ill, Sick
Derivative terms: Convalesce, Convalescence, Convalescent
Definition of Recovering
1. Verb. (present participle of recover) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Recovering
1. recover [v] - See also: recover
Lexicographical Neighbors of Recovering
Literary usage of Recovering
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Life of Benvenuto Cellini by Benvenuto Cellini, John Addington Symonds (1889)
"He would allow them through me a certain favour, for which they had already
petitioned, namely, the right of recovering their fees at law. ..."
2. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the High Court of Chancery: In the by John Tracy Atkyns, Philip Yorke Hardwicke, William Newnam, Great Britain Court of Chancery (1781)
"... namely, that the deeds bia recovering and writings may be produced and lodged
in proper hands for '!". ..."
3. Publications (1885)
"recovering FROM THE EFFECTS OF THE WAK.— The process of recovery from the
desolations occasioned by the war was slow. The losses had been too great, ..."
4. The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau by Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1901)
"... in a manner by which he ought to have been flattered, but which in his weak
brain produced quite a con- recovering even the ten crowns which his ..."
5. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"... and au- form, is the finest collection of love poems of the of recovering
classical writers and copying manu- somewhat Petrarchan in tone, ..."
6. In Darkest Africa: Or, The Quest, Rescue and Retreat of Emin, Governor of by Henry Morton Stanley (1890)
"... astounding events which had occurred in Uganda—Mwanga, King of Uganda; his
behaviour—Our people recovering from the fever epidemic—March ii]i the valley ..."
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