Crossword clues for convalescent
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Convalescent \Con`va*les"cent\, a. [L. convalescens, -entis, p. pr.: cf. F. convalescent.]
Recovering from sickness or debility; partially restored to health or strength.
Of or pertaining to convalescence.
Convalescent \Con`va*les"cent\, n. One recovering from sickness.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1650s, from French convalescent, from Latin convalescentem (nominative convalescens), present participle of convalescere (see convalesce). As a noun, attested from 1758.
Wiktionary
a. 1 recover one's health and strength after a period of illness. 2 Of convalescence or convalescents (see below). n. A person recovering from illness.
WordNet
adj. of or for or relating to convalescence or convalescents; "convalescent home"
returning to health after illness or debility; "convalescent children are difficult to keep in bed" [syn: recovering]
n. a person who is recovering from illness
Usage examples of "convalescent".
At last one joyous day the doctor sent for Banty, who rode over with a led horse, and Con, leaping into the saddle, waved good-bye to Snooks, who, now convalescent, stood in the door of the distant shack.
At first, nearer the house, there were roses and bougainvillaea, poinsettia and banks of phlox, that formed bright bold slashes of colour, against a veld still brown from the long dry winter just passed, but nearer the stream the fields of maize were tended by convalescents from the mission clinic, and soon on the tall green plants the immature cobs would begin to set.
There was a back staircase, and without stopping to think very clearly Beatrice darted from her room, sneaked down to the back door and slid away into the line of trees and shrubs beyond the field, where the convalescent horses and cows were kept.
The child spent much of her time thus, for she was still well, and between convalescents and fever-patients Anna had no time to spare for a child who was merely afraid and hungry.
Clotilde left Sally to dish out the puddings while she went from bed to bed, making sure that the ladies under her care were eating their dinners, listening patiently to complaints, encouraging poor appetites, laughing at the jokes some of the convalescent ladies were making in their cheerful Cockney voices.
Soon Carreen and Suellen would have the insatiable hunger of typhoid convalescents.
When Emma returned, still only fit for a convalescent home, she had to walk about day after day in search of work, conciliating the employers whom Mrs.
With her mother, she accompanied the convalescent in his constitutionals through the Bois de Boulogne.
I sat with her late one night down in a Brawley convalescent home and she told me this long, garbled tale that I'm almost sure now had the truth embedded in it someplace.
Captain Becker, if you would be so kind as to bring some of our cat food cargo down here to share among the convalescents, we can tell these folks about the tainted food after we revive their guardians.
There were two from the convalescent home and a third from Irene, who had called about ten minutes before.
Rabinavitz telephoned the convalescent home, and left a message for Natalie that he would come at eleven with important news.
The flight to Edmonton was nonstop, but it was too late for the group to visit Peter Baker-Jones in the convalescent home that night.
He sat in the wheelchair Mayor Seitz had brought up from the valley convalescent home, and he was plainly fighting off sleep.
There had been, earlier, when the Stronghold's wounded had been taken to the former county convalescent home that served as the valley's hospital, and later there would be more when the less critically injured were brought in horse‑.