recovery
The process of returning to health after illness or injury.
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Использование в IELTS
Appears in reading passages about treatments, surgery outcomes, and rehabilitation.
Примеры
- The patient made a full recovery after the operation.
- Recovery time can vary depending on the injury.
- Good nutrition speeds up recovery from illness.
Collocations
- full recovery
- He expected a full recovery within six weeks.
- recovery process
- The recovery process requires patience and rest.
- speedy recovery
- Doctors wished the patient a speedy recovery.
- recovery rate
- The recovery rate for this procedure is very high.
Word family
- Существительное
- recovery
- Глагол
- recover
Paraphrases
- healing process: Less formal, focuses on physiological aspect.
- return to health: More general phrase.
- convalescence: Formal term for the period after illness.
Распространенные ошибки
- He is in recovery after surgery. to He is recovering after surgery.. 'In recovery' can be used but 'is recovering' is more natural.
- The recovery of the patient was slow. to The patient's recovery was slow.. Use possessive for smoother expression.
- Recovery take time. to Recovery takes time.. Subject-verb agreement: recovery singular, so 'takes'.