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Recovering vs Regaining - What's the difference?

recovering | regaining |

As verbs the difference between recovering and regaining

is that recovering is while regaining is (regain).

As a noun regaining is

the act by which something is regained.

recovering

English

Verb

(head)
    • ''a recovering drug addict

    regaining

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (regain)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act by which something is regained.
  • * 1842 , The United States Magazine and Democratic Review (page 339)
    • We conceive that an alternation of such losings and regainings will continue to be presented in England, until the whole business is set on a new and more stable basis by a revolution which shall not be moral only.