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Recovering   /rəkˈəvərɪŋ/  /rɪkˈəvərɪŋ/   Listen
Recovering

adjective
1.
Returning to health after illness or debility.  Synonym: convalescent.



Recover

verb
(past & past part. recovered; pres. part. recovering)
1.
Get or find back; recover the use of.  Synonyms: find, regain, retrieve.  "She found her voice and replied quickly"
2.
Get over an illness or shock.  Synonyms: convalesce, recuperate.
3.
Regain a former condition after a financial loss.  Synonyms: go back, recuperate.  "The company managed to recuperate"
4.
Regain or make up for.  Synonyms: recoup, recuperate.
5.
Reuse (materials from waste products).  Synonym: reclaim.
6.
Cover anew.



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"Recovering" Quotes from Famous Books



... her down upon the grass by the roadside. Water was procured, but she showed no sign of recovering. — What was to be done? Mrs. Elton thought she had better be carried to the farm-house. Hugh judged it better to take her home at once. To this, after a little argument, ...
— David Elginbrod • George MacDonald

... about? I didn't do any such thing!" was the blustering reply. The former moving-picture actor was recovering from his surprise. ...
— Dave Porter and His Double - The Disapperarance of the Basswood Fortune • Edward Stratemeyer

... sent after our camels brought back my poor white maharee, and demanded ten dollars (as good as twenty to me) for his trouble. I refused to give them, preferring to let him have the camel, which is hardly worth ten dollars. This manner of recovering our lost or stolen camels amounts to buying them over again. But it has been our misfortune all along, that our friends, and those who profess to be such, and all who attempt to aid us—every one of them, have profited by our losses, and the disasters which have befallen ...
— Narrative of a Mission to Central Africa Performed in the Years 1850-51, Volume 2 • James Richardson

... don't think it lasted four minutes, at the end of which time Bill King was the unhappy possessor of four broken ribs, a broken fore-arm, and a dislocated shoulder-blade. Otoo knew nothing of scientific boxing. He was merely a man-handler, and Bill King was something like three months in recovering from the bit of man-handling he received that afternoon ...
— Stories from Everybody's Magazine • 1910 issues of Everybody's Magazine

... six weeks after admission, it was decided he could be moved. The whole station came to say good-bye to old Burke, and all who could went to see him lowered gently by the lift into the barge. Later, we had letters to say that he had survived the amputation of his leg, and was slowly recovering. But that was the longest period that any patient stayed with us. Short as the time generally was, however, it was sometimes long enough to become very intimate, since both were so ready to meet. There is not, and never ...
— On the King's Service - Inward Glimpses of Men at Arms • Innes Logan


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