Usually means: Recover health after illness gradually.
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  1. convalesce: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. convalesce: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. convalesce: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. convalesce: Collins English Dictionary
  5. convalesce: Vocabulary.com
  6. convalesce: Wordnik
  7. convalesce: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. convalesce: Wiktionary
  9. convalesce: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. convalesce: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. convalesce: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. convalesce: Dictionary.com
  13. convalesce: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. convalesce: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Convalesce: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Convalesce: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. convalesce: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. convalesce: Rhymezone
  19. convalesce: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. convalesce: Free Dictionary
  21. convalesce: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. convalesce: Dictionary/thesaurus
  23. convalesce: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

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  1. convalesce: Legal dictionary

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. convalesce: Medical dictionary

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  1. convalesce: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. convalesce: Urban Dictionary

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verb:  To recover health and strength gradually after sickness or weakness.

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