recovering
See also: re-covering
English
Etymology
From Middle English recoveryng; equivalent to recover + -ing.
Verb
recovering
- present participle of recover
- a recovering drug addict
Noun
recovering (plural recoverings)
- The process or the instance of recovery.
- 2004, Donald Smith, A Long Stride Shortens the Road: Poems of Scotland
- 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.
- 2004, Donald Smith, A Long Stride Shortens the Road: Poems of Scotland
Middle English
Noun
recovering
- Alternative form of recoveryng