REHABILITATE


Meaning of REHABILITATE in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ ri:həbɪlɪteɪt ]

( rehabilitates, rehabilitating, rehabilitated)

1.

To rehabilitate someone who has been ill or in prison means to help them to live a normal life again. To rehabilitate someone who has a drug or alcohol problem means to help them stop using drugs or alcohol.

Considerable efforts have been made to rehabilitate patients who have suffered in this way.

VERB : V n

• re‧ha‧bili‧ta‧tion

...the rehabilitation of young offenders.

N-UNCOUNT

2.

If someone is rehabilitated , they begin to be considered acceptable again after a period during which they have been rejected or severely criticized. ( FORMAL )

Ten years later, Dreyfus was rehabilitated...

His candidacy has divided the party; while most have scorned him, others have sought to rehabilitate him.

VERB : be V-ed , V n

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