Definition of "convalesce" []

• To return to health and strength after illness; recuperate. (verb-intransitive)

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• "I mean, it was really -- it gives the President an additional day to convalesce, which is a good thing."
• "The journey to Italy must be given up; she was not in condition to be brought home, and she reluctantly resigned herself to remain where she was and "convalesce," as she confidently believed, in the spring."
• "Though still strong, his body did not convalesce as swiftly as it once had."