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rehabilitation

[ree-huh-bil-i-teyt, ree-uh-]

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verb (used with object)

to restore to a condition of good health, ability to work, or the like.

to restore to good condition, operation, or management, as a bankrupt business.

to reestablish the good reputation of (a person, one's character or name, etc.).

to restore formally to former capacity, standing, rank, rights, or privileges.

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verb (used without object)

to undergo rehabilitation.

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an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle.

an extraordinary or unusual thing, person, or event; an exceptional example or instance.

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Origin:
1570–80; < Medieval Latin rehabilitātus, past participle of rehabilitāre to restore. See re-, habilitate

Related forms

re·ha·bil·i·ta·tion, noun

re·ha·bil·i·ta·tive, adjective

re·ha·bil·i·ta·tor, noun

non·re·ha·bil·i·ta·tion, noun

non·re·ha·bil·i·ta·tive, adjective

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un·re·ha·bil·i·tat·ed, adjective

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Synonyms
2. salvage, restore, recondition, reconstruct, refurbish.

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Example Sentences

Physical rehabilitation is extremely important after a heart attack.

Prisons were built around the noble ideas of rehabilitation.

But after controlling for recidivism and rehabilitation programmes, the meal-related pattern remained.

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Physical rehabilitation is extremely important after a heart attack.

Prisons were built around the noble ideas of rehabilitation.

But after controlling for recidivism and rehabilitation programmes, the meal-related pattern remained.

Our own work indicates that the mirror system can be enlisted to expedite the rehabilitation of hemorrhagic stroke patients.

Five bird and butterfly friendly home gardens plus a visit to a raptor rehabilitation facility.

Advances in sports medicine have dramatically cut recovery and rehabilitation time for football players.

Expand rehabilitation programs for juvenile offenders.

Employers often have to be given financial incentives to hire people in psychiatric vocational rehabilitation services.

The trick is capturing future savings to invest in rehabilitation now.

Purdue researchers see the chair as a potentially useful aid to rehabilitation.

There was a time when drug or alcohol rehabilitation was sufficiently shaming to keep under wraps.

My sister came right away and stayed with her through a surgery to pin her leg together and initial rehabilitation.

Indeed, it is considered a first step in a criminal's rehabilitation.

Doyon called for limited access to hand sanitizers in rehabilitation clinics, prisons and hospitals.

There are a handful of prisoner rehabilitation programs that really work.

But there have been bumps on the road to rehabilitation.

If anything, it is likely to militate against prisoners' rehabilitation.

Please contact us in the future if you have specific rehabilitation questions or needs.

Outside the prison walls, rehabilitation and job programmes remain inadequate.

Nagle spent four months in rehabilitation before moving back to his parents' house.

Tehran's previous mayor stopped providing money for the capital's sole rehabilitation centre for female runaways.

But an even bigger challenge is long-term rehabilitation.

Its work now has shrunk to the rehabilitation of amputees, and even that is in jeopardy.

Officials say that the rehabilitation will take three years, barring more floods.

Filling rehabilitation programmes with addicts unwilling to reform might simply be a distraction for the other patients.

Almost certainly, a lot of land is beyond rehabilitation and likely to be abandoned.

More money is to be spent on rehabilitation and improving workplace environments.

Their sentences will be rehabilitation programmes, not prison.

The rehabilitation clinics that serve them specialise in treating heroin and crack-cocaine addiction.

Unfortunately the rehabilitation of released prisoners can also be expensive.

To begin with, some rehabilitation projects-particularly drug treatment-seem to work.

The technology could aid rehabilitation after injuries or surgeries.

It's even listed in the same sentence with heroin addiction and alcohol abuse on the websites of rehabilitation centers.

Resident specialists invite guests into the field to learn about the rehabilitation of gorillas and chimps.

Dinse notes that for rehabilitation regimens the improved sensory reception would need to be more durable and long.

Mercy and rehabilitation and other mitigating factors must come into play.

The perfect scenario would be for him to take it to the rehabilitation center for good.

The foremost and the prominent problem was for rehabilitation of the refugees.

It also focuses on rehabilitation with a factory, where inmates are taught vocational.

Cesar trains peopledogs need rehabilitation because people think dogs are the latest fashion accessory.

There's no rehabilitation if the convicted criminal is dead.

We monitor them and give them rehabilitation exercises.

After the dog was tired they then did some rehabilitation work while the dog was calm and tired.

The images were released to lessen the impact of paparazzi when she is released from an in-patient rehabilitation center.

As always happens, the artist rehabilitation has led to yuppie gentrification.

Ornstein, explaining that plans call for rehabilitation work on large apartment complexes, where expenses will be high.

Under a plea agreement in his drug case, he was sentenced to a year in a rehabilitation program.

The opposition's rehabilitation began with a strong showing in big cities in a regional vote two years ago.

Twitter, after threatening to leave the city because of a payroll tax, said it would move to a special rehabilitation zone.

Obstacles remain, but step by step the rehabilitation is going ahead.

Rehabilitation is a long-term project, he says, but eagles are returning and mountain zebras are back.

It's one thing to favor rehabilitation for the majority of.

It does not seem to matter if they participated in rehabilitation programs or not.

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World English Dictionary

rehabilitation (ˌriːəˌbɪlɪˈteɪʃən)

—n
1.	the act or process of rehabilitating
2.	med
	a. the treatment of physical disabilities by massage, electrotherapy, or exercises
	b. (as modifier): rehabilitation centre

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Word Origin & History

rehabilitation

1533, from M.Fr. réhabilitation, from M.L. rehabilitationem "restoration," from rehabilitatus, pp. of rehabilitare, from re- "again" + habitare "make fit," from L. habilis "easily managed, fit." Specifically of criminals, addicts, etc., from 1940. Slang shortening rehab is from 1948. The verb

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rehabilitate is attested from 1580.

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Medical Dictionary

rehabilitate re·ha·bil·i·tate (rē'hə-bĭl'ĭ-tāt')
v. re·ha·bil·i·tat·ed, re·ha·bil·i·tat·ing, re·ha·bil·i·tates