RECOVERING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does recovering mean? 

• RECOVERING (adjective)
  The adjective RECOVERING has 1 sense:

1. returning to health after illness or debility

  Familiarity information: RECOVERING used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RECOVERING (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Returning to health after illness or debility

Synonyms:

convalescent; recovering

Context example:

convalescent children are difficult to keep in bed

Similar:

ill; sick (affected by an impairment of normal physical or mental function)

 Context examples 

“And so you actually put this piece of court-plaister by for his sake!” said Emma, recovering from her state of shame and feeling divided between wonder and amusement.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

Starting, the lady instinctively moved a step or two, but recovering herself in a moment, affected to laugh, and asked him, in a tone not much louder, “If he would give her away?”

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

As to my own little practice, it seems to be degenerating into an agency for recovering lost lead pencils and giving advice to young ladies from boarding-schools.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He was always wandering about from place to place, with his one object of recovering his niece before him; but was more in London than elsewhere.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

The prisoner was bent recovering the consciousness which had been squeezed from him by the grip of Hordle John.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

His spirits had been greatly recovering lately as might be expected.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

Recovering himself, however, shortly, he turned to his partner, and said, “Sir William's interruption has made me forget what we were talking of.”

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

“Excellent,” said he, recovering his good-humour.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He was like one recovering from some terrible bout of hardship.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Dr. Shlessinger’s remarkable personality, his whole hearted devotion, and the fact that he was recovering from a disease contracted in the exercise of his apostolic duties affected her deeply.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)