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Convalesce   Listen
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Convalesce  v. i.  (past & past part. convalesced; pres. part. convalescing)  To recover health and strength gradually, after sickness or weakness; as, a patient begins to convalesce.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Convalesce" Quotes from Famous Books



... it's one of the rules), so she gave me my present position, and I am able to help the boy. He went up last year and did famously, but I have had sad news this week. He had been obliged to go home and convalesce after an attack of influenza, and is so weak still that the doctor says he will want any amount of rest and feeding up before he can go back. So you see I am more thankful than ever to be ...
— Tom and Some Other Girls - A Public School Story • Mrs. George de Horne Vaizey



Words linked to "Convalesce" :   deteriorate, recuperate, convalescence, recover, snap back, convalescent, gain vigor, perk up, perk, ameliorate, better, percolate, pick up



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