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I myself identify as a recovering Blockhead. You'd be surprised how many twenty- and thirty-something hipster chicks have the NKOTB skeleton in their closet, albeit artfully concealed by stacks of Ksubi skinny jeans and ironic Judas Priest T-shirts.
Diablo Cody

Meaning of "recovering" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF RECOVERING

recovering  [rɪˈkʌvərɪŋ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF RECOVERING

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Recovering is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES RECOVERING MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of recovering in the English dictionary

The definition of recovering in the dictionary is returning to health after illness or debility, such as alcoholism or drug addiction.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH RECOVERING


catering
ˈkeɪtərɪŋ
considering
kənˈsɪdərɪŋ
covering
ˈkʌvərɪŋ
during
ˈdjʊərɪŋ
engineering
ˌɛndʒɪˈnɪərɪŋ
flavouring
ˈfleɪvərɪŋ
Havering
ˈheɪvərɪŋ
hoovering
ˈhuːvərɪŋ
hovering
ˈhɒvərɪŋ
livering
ˈlɪvərɪŋ
manoeuvring
məˈnuːvərɪŋ
manufacturing
ˌmænjʊˈfæktʃərɪŋ
monitoring
ˈmɒnɪtərɪŋ
offering
ˈɒfərɪŋ
quavering
ˈkweɪvərɪŋ
quivering
ˈkwɪvərɪŋ
shivering
ˈʃɪvərɪŋ
unwavering
ʌnˈweɪvərɪŋ
wallcovering
ˈwɔːlkʌvərɪŋ
wavering
ˈweɪvərɪŋ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE RECOVERING

recourse
recover
recoverability
recoverable
recoverableness
recovered
recovered memory
recoveree
recoverer
recoveries
recoveror
recovery
recovery operation
recovery position
recovery room
recovery ship
recovery stock
recovery team
recovery vehicle
recovery vessel

WORDS THAT END LIKE RECOVERING

bring
civil engineering
electrical engineering
empowering
fingering
flattering
flowering
gathering
lettering
lowering
mechanical engineering
ordering
pioneering
power steering
rendering
scattering
steering
suffering
wandering
watering
wondering

Synonyms and antonyms of recovering in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «RECOVERING»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «recovering» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of recovering

Translation of «recovering» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF RECOVERING

Find out the translation of recovering to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of recovering from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «recovering» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

恢复
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

recuperación
570 millions of speakers

English

recovering
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

उबरने
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

يتعافى
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

восстановление
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

recuperação
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

পুনরুদ্ধার
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

récupération
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Pulih
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Rückgewinnung
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

回復
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

복구
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Mbaleni
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

phục hồi
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

மீண்டு
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

पुनर्प्राप्त
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

kazanılması
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

recupero
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

odzyskiwanie
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

відновлення
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

recuperarea
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

ανάκτηση
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

herstel
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

utvinning
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

utvinne
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of recovering

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «RECOVERING»

The term «recovering» is very widely used and occupies the 16.146 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about recovering

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10 QUOTES WITH «RECOVERING»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word recovering.
1
Richard Ben-Veniste
Gerald R. Ford was a decent and honorable man. Under his steady hand, the nation began the process of recovering from the terrible trauma of Watergate - the lies, distortions, cover-ups, misuses of federal agencies to exact political revenge, illegal wiretapping, burglaries.
2
David Blunkett
Children whose parents return to study do much better at school. Offenders who persist with studies are much less likely to reoffend. The national mental health strategy recognises the important role adult learning can play for people recovering from mental illness.
3
Adelbert von Chamisso
On recovering my senses, I hastened to quit a place where I hoped there was nothing further to detain me. I first filled my pockets with gold, then fastened the strings of the purse round my neck, and concealed it in my bosom.
4
Diablo Cody
I myself identify as a recovering Blockhead. You'd be surprised how many twenty- and thirty-something hipster chicks have the NKOTB skeleton in their closet, albeit artfully concealed by stacks of Ksubi skinny jeans and ironic Judas Priest T-shirts.
5
Judy Collins
Recovering from the suicide of a loved one, you need all the help you can get, so I very much recommend a meditation program. The whole picture of how to recover from this has to do with body, mind, and spirit. That's applicable to any kind of depression.
6
Jamie Lee Curtis
I work with The National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University. I sit proudly as one of only two recovering addicts on their board.
7
Mark Z. Danielewski
'House of Leaves' is certainly about the unsettling nature of fear - and it was my aim to address that - but it's also about recovering from fear.
8
Christopher Darden
In some ways I'm still recovering from the trial. My health is not as good as it ought to be. I've gone back to practicing law and it seems to have taken a toll for whatever reason.
9
Bill Dedman
The Adversity Index was created by msnbc.com and Moody's Analytics to track the economic fortunes of states and metro areas. Each month, the Adversity Index uses government data on employment, industrial production, housing starts and home prices to label each area as expanding, at risk of recession, in recession or recovering.
10
Josh Ryan Evans
I always knew I wanted to be a character in the movies. When I was growing up, I had to have a lot of surgery, and I spent a lot of time recovering at home and in the hospital. Watching movies took me away from my own problems and gave me a total escape.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «RECOVERING»

Discover the use of recovering in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to recovering and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Culture Making: Recovering Our Creative Calling
Ultimately, our culture making is done in partnership with God's own making and transforming of culture. A model of his premise, this landmark book is sure to be a rallying cry for a new generation of culturally creative Christians.
Andy Crouch, 2013
2
Recovering Landscape: Essays in Contemporary Landscape Theory
The contributors to this collection, all leading figures in the field of landscape architecture, include Alan Balfour, Denis Cosgrove, Georges Descombes, Christophe Girot, Steen Hoyer, David Leatherbarrow, Bart Lootsma, Sebastien Marot, ...
James Corner, 1999
3
Recovering Subversion: Feminist Politics Beyond the Law
Nivedita Menon explores the relationship between law and feminist politics by examining the contemporary Indian women's movement with comparisons to France and the United States.
Nivedita Menon, 2004
4
Making Room: Recovering Hospitality as a Christian Tradition
In Making Room, Christine Pohl revisits the discipline of welcoming strangers and provides the foundation for renewed commitment to recovering hospitality as a Christian tradition.
Christine D. Pohl, 1999
5
Recovering Canada: The Resurgence of Indigenous Law
John Borrows suggests how First Nations laws could be applied by Canadian courts, and tempers this by pointing out the many difficulties that would occur if the courts attempted to follow such an approach.
John Borrows, 2002
6
101 Support Group Activities for Teenagers Recovering from ...
Gives new and experienced support group leaders numerous tools to help students boost self-esteem, identify defenses, reduce shame, and learn about chemical dependency.
Martin Fleming, 1992
7
Everything Changes: Help for Families of Newly Recovering ...
Beverly Conyers, author of the acclaimed Addict in the Family, again shares the hope and knowledge that she gained as a parent of a recovering addict by focusing on the aftermath of addiction.
Beverly Conyers, 2013
8
Recovering from Losses in Life
Whether you've gone through a great tragedy or are just trying to deal with the small sorrows in life, this book can help you resist the pull toward despair and start on the road back to joy.
H. Norman Wright, 2006
9
Recovering: A Journal
Sarton suffered a brutal review of her last novel, personal problems, and a mastectomy in 1979 and this journal reveals how she drew on her inner strength to surmount this series of crises and regain her creative powers
May Sarton, 1997
10
Recovering Liberties: Indian Thought in the Age of ...
Equally, Recovering Liberties contributes to the rapidly developing field of global intellectual history, demonstrating that the ideas we associate with major Western thinkers – Mills, Comte, Spencer and Marx – were received and ...
C. A. Bayly, 2011

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «RECOVERING»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term recovering is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Burn Victim Recovering, Happy to Have Love Sent His Way
A New Hampshire man recovering in Taiwan after being severely burned in an explosion at a water park there last month says he's grateful for all the get-well ... «ABC News, Jul 15»
2
Army football player Josh Jenkins recovering from head injury after …
WEST POINT, N.Y. -- Army football player Josh Jenkins is recovering from a head injury stemming from a fight with another cadet during the Fourth of July ... «ESPN, Jul 15»
3
woman recovering after rabid bobcat attacks
Ala. woman recovering after rabid bobcat attacks, bites her ... —An Alabama woman is recovering after being attacked by a rabid bobcat in the front yard of her ... «WVTM13, Jul 15»
4
Joey Feek, of country duo Joey and Rory, recovering from surgery …
Joey Feek is recovering after undergoing surgery to treat a reoccurrence of cervical cancer. The singer underwent surgery on Thursday, July 9, 2015, at the ... «680 News, Jul 15»
5
Joni Mitchell Had An Aneurysm But Is Recovering Well, Says …
Morris says Mitchell is speaking — and speaking well — while recovering at home. She's unable to walk, but is expected to soon and make a full recovery. «Huffington Post, Jun 15»
6
Joni Mitchell 'Is Recovering' But 'Not Speaking Yet,' Says David Crosby
Three months after she was rushed to the hospital after being found unconscious in her home, Joni Mitchell's longtime friend David Crosby reveals the singer is ... «People Magazine, Jun 15»
7
Harpooned Sea Lion Recovering at SeaWorld San Diego
Bubba the impaled sea lion arrived at SeaWorld San Diego Tuesday about midnight following a harrowing ordeal when someone stabbed him up north at the ... «Patch.com, May 15»
8
Three years after Sandy, Jersey shore struggles to recover
But with the third summer after Sandy nearly here, the Jersey shore is still recovering despite the substantial progress that has been made in the 2½ years since ... «Boston Globe, May 15»
9
Canada goose recovering after cigarettes spark fire in nest
CASTALIA, Ohio (AP) — A mother goose is recovering from serious burns after cigarette butts started a fire in her nest. Wildlife specialist Tim White tells the ... «Yahoo News UK, May 15»
10
Bengals tight end Eifert recovering from shoulder surgery
The elbow is fine, but Eifert is still recovering from surgery in December to fix his shoulder. Everything is going well enough to make him optimistic that he'll be ... «Washington Times, May 15»

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