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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Maradona was convalescing when he died of a heart attack at his home in 2020, aged 60.
From BBC ● Mar. 11, 2025
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
Dosson, after much inquiry, and many day's watching about Forty-nine's cabin, called and was admitted to see the prisoner, who by this time, though weak and worn to a skeleton, was convalescing.
From Shadows of Shasta by Joaquin Miller
