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