Definition of "convalescing" []

• Present participle of convalesce. (verb)

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• "At the height of the sympathetic strike my oldest sister, who was convalescing from a long illness in a hospital near Chicago, became suddenly very much worse."
• "The Capuchine friar, Francisco de Ajofrín, who disembarked there in 1763, remarked that: "all the people who live here, even the young people, are of pallid complexion, and are in such a broken state of health [tan quebrados], as if they were convalescing from a grave illness, and the cause is the continual transpiration and sweating from the excessive heat, [which is] seen also in their actions and even in they way they speak ...""
• "(In a 1971 “false memoir” called “Wolf,” written while Harrison was convalescing from a fall off a cliff, he suggested curing heartbreak by broiling a two - to three-pound porterhouse, eating it with your hands, followed by a hot bath in which you consume the best bourbon you can buy until the bottle is empty."