convalesce

During their tour, they met with the convalescing Pope at the Vatican and enjoyed a state banquet in their honour.

And when he suffered a punctured lung against Manchester United on a tour of the States, he convalesced at the Los Angeles home of McElhenney.

To convalesce, they stay in this compound, and exercise by walking around its well-ordered clusters of three-story buildings and a synthetic turf avenue with a playground and soccer field.

More than a dozen koalas were convalescing in open-air enclosures, wrapping their woolly arms around the trunks of eucalyptus trees.

Pink needed two surgeries and almost two months of recovery at the same aviary where Blue is convalescing.