verb
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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He will need about a week to convalesce after his hospital stay.
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Jason is now convalescing at home after a major operation.
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They travelled to Bermuda for six weeks so that David could convalesce in the sun.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Afternoons, I convalesce , play patience, match-make a court of Siamese twins.
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But Luke's room was hardly a place to convalesce .
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He also fell so ill that he was sent to the family's country house to convalesce .
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His health broke down under the strain of overwork, and he returned to Ortona in 1869 to convalesce .
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Imagine the comical scene when Grant goes to visit Rod who is convalescing at home.
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Korngold wrote the Symphonic Serenade while convalescing from a heart attack in 1950.
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Schoolteachers used their own time to help their ill students keep up while convalescing.
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These two physical symptoms are the most important causes of disability and failure to convalesce .