Rehabilitate

Quick meaning: Rehabilitate is a verb meaning (transitive) To restore (someone) to their former state, reputation, possessions, status etc.

Meaning

(transitive) To restore (someone) to their former state, reputation, possessions, status etc.

More Meanings

1. (transitive) To vindicate; to restore the reputation or image of (a person, concept etc.).
2. (transitive) To return (something) to its original condition.
3. (transitive, Canada, US, construction) To restore or repair (a vehicle, building); to make habitable or usable again.
4. (transitive, medicine) To return (someone) to good health after illness, addiction, etc.
5. (intransitive) To go through such a process; to recover.
6. (transitive, criminology) To restore to (a criminal etc.) the necessary training and education to allow for a successful reintegration into society; to retrain.

Example Sentences

Engineers are considering using the blowable insulation to rehabilitate residential buildings in Chicago under an Argonne partnership with Bethel New Life, a Chicago community economic initiative.

Patty Wahlers, 40, is the founder and director of Horse of Connecticut, an organization situated on a 46-acre farm in Washington that rescues and rehabilitates neglected horses and puts them up for adoption.

Cumaratunga was so furious that he intensified his campaign for revitalizing the traditional practices of asweddumization, so that neglected arable land could be rehabilitated, and a degenerating economy restructured and rejuvenated.

Truman made us all feel welcome and relaxed as we shook hands with him. We sat around the desk, and he spoke very earnestly about the necessity of rehabilitating Europe and emphasized his concern that peaceful German production should be encouraged.

Word Forms

• rehabilitates
• rehabilitating
• rehabilitated

Synonyms for rehabilitate

Depending on context, synonyms include restore, reconvert, restitute, revert, fix, renovate.

Antonyms for rehabilitate

Common opposites include purge.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include recovery, reinstate, recover, reclaim, retrieve, regain.

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