Definition of "convalesced" []

• Simple past tense and past participle of convalesce. (verb)

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• "Washington convalesced at Mount Vernon for more than three months."
• "Watson was wounded in the battle, convalesced in a military hospital at Peshawar, and made his way back to London, where, after an unspecified passage of time, was introduced to Holmes in the laboratories of St. Bart's Hospital."
• "In December 2008, she slipped on some ice, hit her head, and was taken to the emergency room; the Gensburgs saw she had the best doctors and convalesced in a nursing home."