Convalesce vs Recuperate - What's the difference?
convalesce | recuperate |
To recover health and strength gradually after sickness or weakness
To recover, especially from an illness; to get better from an illness.
(sociology) To co-opt subversive ideas for mainstream use
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As verbs the difference between convalesce and recuperate
is that convalesce is to recover health and strength gradually after sickness or weakness while recuperate is to recover, especially from an illness; to get better from an illness.convalesce
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Verb
(en-verb)- The patient convalesced for six months after his stroke.