recovering

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See also: re-covering

English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

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

Verb[edit]

recovering

  1. present participle and gerund of recover
    a recovering drug addict

Noun[edit]

recovering (plural recoverings)

  1. The process or the instance of recovery.
    • 2004, Donald Smith, A Long Stride Shortens the Road: Poems of Scotland[1]:
      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.

Middle English[edit]

Noun[edit]

recovering

  1. Alternative form of recoveryng