recovering

Etymology

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

verb

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

noun

  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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