Word Meanings - CONVALESCE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To recover health and strength gradually, after sickness or weakness; as, a patient begins to convalesce.

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• AFTERCAST
  A throw of dice after the game in ended; hence, anything done too late. Gower.
• CONVALESCENTLY
  In the manner of a convalescent; with increasing strength or vigor.
• AFTERPAINS
  The pains which succeed childbirth, as in expelling the afterbirth.
• STRENGTHFUL
  Abounding in strength; full of strength; strong. -- Strength"ful*ness, n. Florence my friend, in court my faction Not meanly strengthful. Marston.
• HEALTHFULLY
  In health; wholesomely.
• PATIENTLY
  In a patient manner. Cowper.
• CONVALESCENT
  1. Recovering from siclness or debility; partially restored to health or strength. 2. Of or pertaining to convalescence.
• AFTERSHAFT
  The hypoptilum.
• AFTERPIECE
  The heel of a rudder. (more info) 1. A piece performed after a play, usually a farce or other small entertainment.
• STRENGTHENING
  That strengthens; giving or increasing strength. -- Strength"en*ing*ly, adv. Strengthening plaster , a plaster containing iron, and supposed to have tonic effects.
• HEALTHLESS
  1. Without health, whether of body or mind; in firm. "A healthless or old age." Jer. Taylor. 2. Not conducive to health; unwholesome.
• HEALTHFUL
  1. Full of health; free from illness or disease; well; whole; sound; healthy; as, a healthful body or mind; a healthful plant. 2. Serving to promote health of body or mind; wholesome; salubrious; salutary; as, a healthful air, diet. The healthful
• RECOVERANCE
  Recovery.
• AFTER DAMP
  An irrespirable gas, remaining after an explosion of fire damp in mines; choke damp. See Carbonic acid.
• AFTER-NOTE
  One of the small notes occur on the unaccented parts of the measure, taking their time from the preceding note.
• CONVALESCE
  To recover health and strength gradually, after sickness or weakness; as, a patient begins to convalesce.
• HEALTHFULNESS
  The state of being healthful.
• HEALTHSOME
  Wholesome; salubrious. "Healthsome air." Shak.
• AFTERWISE
  Wise after the event; wise or knowing, when it is too late.
• WEAKNESS
  1. The quality or state of being weak; want of strength or firmness; lack of vigor; want of resolution or of moral strength; feebleness. 2. That which is a mark of lack of strength or resolution; a fault; a defect. Many take pleasure in spreading
• COMPATIENT
  Suffering or enduring together. Sir G. Buck.
• OVERPATIENT
  Patient to excess.
• RECOVER
  To cover again. Sir W. Scott.
• OMNIPATIENT
  Capable of enduring all things. Carlyle.
• AFTER
  To ward the stern of the ship; -- applied to any object in the rear part of a vessel; as the after cabin, after hatchway. Note: It is often combined with its noun; as, after-bowlines, after- braces, after-sails, after-yards, those on the mainmasts
• OUT-PATIENT
  A patient who is outside a hospital, but receives medical aid from it.
• CRAFTER
  a creator of great skill in the manual arts. Syn. -- craftsman.
• LOVE-SICKNESS
  The state of being love-sick.