# recovering

Pronunciation: US say "ri-KUV-ur-ing" /ɹɪˈkʌvəɹɪŋ/; UK say "ri-KUV-uh-ring" /ɹɪˈkʌvəɹɪŋ/

## Verb

1. Present participle of recover. — present participle and gerund of recover
   - Simple: Present participle of recover. Use this form for something happening now, often after "is" or "are."
   - _He spent the summer recovering from a broken leg._
   - _The economy is slowly recovering after the downturn._

## Noun

2. The process or an instance of regaining something, or of returning to a normal, healthy, or original state.
   - Simple: The act of getting something back, or of returning to a normal or healthy state.
   - _The recovering of stolen artifacts proved to be a long legal ordeal._
   - _A full recovering of the corrupted files was impossible after the crash._

## Origin

From Middle English recoveryng, equivalent to "recover" plus the suffix "-ing".

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/recovering (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).