One entry found for convalesce.

Entry Word: convalesce
Function: verb
Text: to become healthy and strong again after illness or weakness <the long months that the soldier spent in the hospital slowly convalescing>
Synonyms gain, heal, mend, rally, recover, recuperate, snap back
Related Words come around, come round, come to, improve, pick up, revive; cheer (up), perk (up); pull through, survive; recruit
Near Antonyms ail, collapse, come down, sicken; decline, degenerate, deteriorate, fade, fail, languish, sink, waste (away), weaken, wilt, wither, worsen; relapse