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recovering

verbnouncommon in dialogue

The process or the instance of recovery.

verb

  1. 1

    Also a form of recoverpresent participle and gerund of recover

    a recovering drug addict

Etymology

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

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.

Forms

plural
recoverings
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).