convalesce
verb (used without object)
to recover health and strength after illness; make progress toward recovery of health.
convalesced
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past participleof convalesce.past participle
A verb form used in perfect and passive verb constructions and that can also function as a modifier.
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past tense formof convalesce.past tense
Used to describe completed actions or previous habitual actions.
convalesceverb (used without object)to recover health and strength after illness; make progress toward recovery of health.
Example Sentences
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Their parents and grandparents convalesced there and sometimes died there, cared for by nurses who were part of the community.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 26, 2025
And when he suffered a punctured lung against Manchester United on a tour of the States, he convalesced at the Los Angeles home of McElhenney.
From BBC ● Apr. 10, 2025
Sick and weighing only 70 pounds, he convalesced at a hospital, where he began painting scenes from Auschwitz, as well as landscapes.
From New York Times ● Feb. 4, 2023
Two weeks later, Dole was back in the Senate as mourners passed by the casket of Sen. Daniel Inouye, D-Hawaii, whom Dole had befriended decades earlier as the men convalesced from their war injuries.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 5, 2021
For five years now she had convalesced in confinement, but she still had not healed.
From "The Girl Who Drank the Moon" by Kelly Barnhill
