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convalescence

noun as in helplessness

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noun as in recovery

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After his recovery and convalescence he enrolled at the University of Arizona in Tucson on the GI Bill, and later transferred to Washburn University in his home state of Kansas.

During a long convalescence, he became a serious reader and developed an aversion to hospitals and blood.

Baha Mar’s Travel with Confidence initiative includes a $150 daily food and beverage credit with its courtesy convalescence suite.

While there, she accidentally contracted conjunctivitis from an infant with gonorrhea ophthalmia and subsequently lost an eye after a long and painful convalescence.

If Captain America can come back from the dead, then his current convalescence is only a temporary derailment.

Hospitalized, seriously injured, he would return after a six-week convalescence.

After a long period of convalescence following her breakdown, she breathes a sigh of relief when she is able to write.

During my convalescence I had bought and read for the first time, The King in Yellow.

Moreover, his convalescence involved a continuing “liberal education.”

It appears early in the catarrhal stage, and persists until after convalescence.

I was blinded by passion; but that my emotional depths were not even stirred was manifested by the rapidity of my convalescence.

She charged him with having been a remarkable case, and he piled up illustrations of what he felt able to do in his convalescence.

The nurse smiled, and left him to his thoughts, which now came freely enough—too freely to help him to convalescence.

A great weakness seemed to overcome him, for an unusual gentleness came into his voice, the quiet tone of weak convalescence.

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On this page you'll find 154 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to convalescence, such as: disorder, weakness, and poor health.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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