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re-covering

re-covering is the present participle and gerund of re-cover.

re-covering is the alternative form of recovering.

Meaning of re-cover

Verb

re-cover (third-person singular simple present re-covers, present participle re-covering, simple past and past participle re-covered)

  1. To cover again.
    • The seats are the same type as fitted to the FGW sets. It's worth remembering that refurbishment of the First Class seats by FGW a few years previously was excellent (if you like leather seats). I assume they have been re-covered in this latest refurbishment.2019 October 23, Pip Dunn, “The next king of Scotland”, in Rail, page 51

Meaning of recovering

Noun

recovering (plural recoverings)

  1. The process or the instance of recovery.
    • Fables have their own time island entertainments or fragments of embodied life refractions light and dark recoverings of race and memory passionate elusive by-blows of a richer being.2004, Donald Smith, A Long Stride Shortens the Road: Poems of Scotland

Forms of re-covering

pluralre-coverings

Questions about re-covering

What is re-covering the present participle and gerund of?
Re-covering is the present participle and gerund of re-cover.

Words near re-covering in the dictionary

  1. re-constructing
  2. re-constructs
  3. re-count
  4. re-cover
  5. re-covered
  6. re-covering
  7. re-coverings
  8. re-covers
  9. re-creatable
  10. re-create
  11. re-created

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Adapted from Wiktionary: re-covering (page history and authors); re-cover (page history and authors); recovering (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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