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recovering en · NOUN

Etymology

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

Meanings

  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:

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recovering en · VERB

Etymology

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

Meanings

  1. (form-of, gerund, participle, present) present participle and gerund of recover
    form of recover
    • a recovering drug addict