Convalesce
verb
To recover health and strength gradually after sickness or weakness.
She spent two weeks convalescing after her surgery.

Often appears as...
- convalesce from illness
- convalesce at home
verb
To recover health and strength gradually after sickness or weakness.
She spent two weeks convalescing after her surgery.

Often appears as...
- convalesce from illness
- convalesce at home
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Healing Process
Used to describe the time spent getting better physically after illness or injury.

He's convalescing from a bout of pneumonia.
Not Instant
Indicates recovery takes a period of time and does not happen quickly.

The doctor said she must convalesce for a few months.
Place Matters
Often used with a location to show where someone is resting to regain health.

My uncle is convalescing at a seaside resort.
Healing Process
Used to describe the time spent getting better physically after illness or injury.

He's convalescing from a bout of pneumonia.
Not Instant
Indicates recovery takes a period of time and does not happen quickly.

The doctor said she must convalesce for a few months.
Place Matters
Often used with a location to show where someone is resting to regain health.

My uncle is convalescing at a seaside resort.
Healing Process
Used to describe the time spent getting better physically after illness or injury.

He's convalescing from a bout of pneumonia.
Not Instant
Indicates recovery takes a period of time and does not happen quickly.

The doctor said she must convalesce for a few months.
Place Matters
Often used with a location to show where someone is resting to regain health.

My uncle is convalescing at a seaside resort.
Video examples
How do we heal medicine?...
It was at a time when what was known you could know, you could hold it all in your head, and you could do it all. If you had a prescription pad, if you had a nurse, if you had a hospital that would give you a place to convalesce, maybe some basic tools,
Video examples
Safari Live - Day 138 PIPE...
they're injured or something like that they'll go and find such thick bush where they'll choose to sort of either convalesce or die quietly that's yeah you wouldn't find the carcasses the unusual to find them and then of course you know in not very long
Video examples
How do we heal medicine?...
convalesce maybe some basic tools you really could do it all you set the fracture you drew the blood you spun the blood and looked at it under the microscope you plated the culture you
Video examples
How do we heal medicine?...
It was at a time when what was known you could know, you could hold it all in your head, and you could do it all. If you had a prescription pad, if you had a nurse, if you had a hospital that would give you a place to convalesce, maybe some basic tools,
Video examples
Safari Live - Day 138 PIPE...
they're injured or something like that they'll go and find such thick bush where they'll choose to sort of either convalesce or die quietly that's yeah you wouldn't find the carcasses the unusual to find them and then of course you know in not very long
Video examples
How do we heal medicine?...
convalesce maybe some basic tools you really could do it all you set the fracture you drew the blood you spun the blood and looked at it under the microscope you plated the culture you
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