recovering
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See also: re-covering
English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Middle English recoveryng; equivalent to recover + -ing.
Verb[edit]
recovering
- present participle and gerund of recover
- a recovering drug addict
Noun[edit]
recovering (plural recoverings)
- 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
- Alternative form of recoveryng