recovering

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noun

The process or the instance of recovery.

“a recovering drug addict”

Similar
convalescentillsick
OriginMiddle English recoveryng →
CommonScrabble 16
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Meanings

verb
  1. gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of recover

    a recovering drug addict

nounrecovering (plural recoverings)

plural recoverings

  1. The process or the instance of recovery.

    Fables have their own time island entertainments or fragments of embodied life refractions light and dark recoverings of race and memory passionate elusive by-blows of a richer being.

    2004, Donald Smith, A Long Stride Shortens the Road: Poems of Scotland

Synonyms & antonyms

adjectivereturning to health after illness or debility

Similar
convalescentillsick
Also see
convalescent

Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

Origin

  1. Middle Englishrecoveryng
  2. Englishrecovering

From Middle English recoveryng; equivalent to recover + -ing.

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APA

recovering. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/recovering

MLA

“recovering.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/recovering. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “recovering,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/recovering.

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