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Recovering

noun, verb

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    returning to health after illness or debility wordnet
Noun
  1. 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."

Verb
  1. 1
    present participle and gerund of recover form-of, gerund, participle, present

    "a recovering drug addict"

Etymology

Etymology 1

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

Etymology 2

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

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