Definitions for convalesce

convalesce con·va·lesce

Spelling: [kon-vuh-les]
IPA: /ˌkɒn vəˈlɛs/

Convalesce is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 17 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 22 points.

You can make 514 anagrams from letters in convalesce (acceelnosv).

Definitions for convalesce

verb (used without object)

  1. to recover health and strength after illness; make progress toward recovery of health.

Origin of convalesce

1475-85; Latin convalēscere to grow fully strong, equivalent to con- con- + valēscere to grow strong (val(ēre) to be well + -escere Examples for convalesce

But was she back from Scotland, where they knew she had gone to convalesce?

Instead she will convalesce quietly at home at Windsor Castle.

Lydia later returned to convalesce at Grayson Manor, where she was more or less kept a prisoner by Victoria.

What would she say if told that the caller meant to wait right there until Mr. Baird should convalesce?

These were happy days; I had nothing to do but to convalesce.

It took Mrs. Upton a fortnight to get over one of these visits—to convalesce.

Besides, there was only one, if you come to think of it—the little boy being sent to Widow Thrale's to convalesce.

She began to convalesce slowly but surely, and one day she turned the nurses out of the room and sent for her Uncle Robert.

After the patient begins to convalesce the danger of infection grows greater.

It was an extraordinarily beautiful perch from which to contemplate everything and convalesce.

Word Value for convalesce
Scrable

17

Words with friends

22

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