recovering

See also: re-covering

English

Etymology

From Middle English recoveryng; equivalent to recover +‎ -ing.

Verb

recovering

1. present participle and gerund of recover

   a recovering drug addict

Noun

recovering (plural recoverings)

1. 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

Noun

recovering

1. Alternative form of recoveryng