单词 | rehabilitating |
释义 | rehabilitatingn. Rehabilitation. ΚΠ 1857 Christian Examiner & Relig. Misc. Jan. 62 We were long ago familiar with Walpole's rehabilitating of King Richard III, an undertaking that found favor with some novelists. 1886 J. C. Simonds & J. T. McEnnis Story of Man. Labor (1887) i. iii. 66 The result of the oppressions and abuses of the feudal lords, was the revolution of 1868, and the rehabilitating of the Mikado. 1924 Glasgow Herald 18 Mar. 6/3 The rehabilitating of Austria was carried a stage further. 1996 S. Katz Disciplining Old Age ii. 52 Philanthropic activists are seen to have applied the scientific principles of the Enlightenment to the healing and rehabilitating of society's outcasts. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022). rehabilitatingadj. That facilitates rehabilitation; that undergoes rehabilitation. ΚΠ 1853 N. Brit. Rev. May 94 Invested with a divining skill, and exercising with such freedom a rehabilitating function, it is obvious what a dangerous eminence he occupies. 1892 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Aug. 209/2 It is much to be hoped that the revival of trade and the consequent quickening of enterprise may before long exercise a rehabilitating influence on a once flourishing port. 1944 Canad. Jrnl. Econ. & Polit. Sci. 10 147 Debt service charges even at low interest rates may more than exceed any exporting capacity that the rehabilitating country might develop. 1998 Community Care 16 July 1/2 [She]..addressed the risks posed by the needs of a rehabilitating drug user and her young child. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, March 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1857adj.1853 |
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