recovering
See also: re-covering
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle English recoveryng; equivalent to recover + -ing.
Verb
[edit]recovering
- present participle and gerund of recover
- a recovering drug addict
Noun
[edit]recovering (plural recoverings)
- The process or the instance of recovery.
- 2004, Donald Smith, A Long Stride Shortens the Road: Poems of Scotland[1]:
- Fables have their own time island entertainments or fragments of embodied life refractions light and dark recoverings of race and memory passionate elusive by-blows of a richer being.
Middle English
[edit]Noun
[edit]recovering
- Alternative form of recoveryng