convalesce
verb (used without object)
to recover health and strength after illness; make progress toward recovery of health.
was convalescing
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past progressiveof convalesce.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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No complications occurred during the surgery or while the pope was convalescing in Gemelli’s 10th-floor apartment reserved exclusively for the hospitalization of pontiffs, according to the pope’s medical staff.
From Washington Times ● Jun. 16, 2023
Her husband, Arturo Ek, then got the disease from her while she was convalescing at home, and eventually died from it, she said.
From Reuters ● Dec. 21, 2021
A person familiar with the matter said Camilleri had been stricken with COVID-19 and was convalescing at home after being hospitalized.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 11, 2020
He was watching this happen, and while his wife was convalescing, he sits down and writes “The Second Coming.”
From Slate ● May 3, 2020
During the days when she was convalescing, but still too weak to leave her bed, her impatience to get to her brother was so great, that the doctor feared it would retard her recovery.
From Lewie Or, The Bended Twig by Sarah H. (Sarah Hopkins) Bradford
