rehabilitate
verb /ˌriːəˈbɪlɪteɪt/
/ˌriːəˈbɪlɪteɪt/
Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they rehabilitate | /ˌriːəˈbɪlɪteɪt/ /ˌriːəˈbɪlɪteɪt/ |
| he / she / it rehabilitates | /ˌriːəˈbɪlɪteɪts/ /ˌriːəˈbɪlɪteɪts/ |
| past simple rehabilitated | /ˌriːəˈbɪlɪteɪtɪd/ /ˌriːəˈbɪlɪteɪtɪd/ |
| past participle rehabilitated | /ˌriːəˈbɪlɪteɪtɪd/ /ˌriːəˈbɪlɪteɪtɪd/ |
| -ing form rehabilitating | /ˌriːəˈbɪlɪteɪtɪŋ/ /ˌriːəˈbɪlɪteɪtɪŋ/ |
- rehabilitate somebody to help somebody to have a normal, useful life again after they have been very ill or in prison for a long time
- a unit for rehabilitating drug addicts
- The new proposals involve rehabilitating even more patients for life outside hospital.
- rehabilitate somebody (as something) to begin to consider that somebody is good or acceptable after a long period during which they were considered bad or unacceptable
- He played a major role in rehabilitating Magritte as an artist.
- rehabilitate something to return a building or an area to its previous good condition
- Billions of pounds are being spent on rehabilitating inner-city areas.
Word Originlate 16th cent. (earlier (late 15th cent.) as rehabilitation) (in the sense ‘restore to former privileges’): from medieval Latin rehabilitat-, from the verb rehabilitare (from re- and habilitate, from medieval Latin habilitat- ‘made able’, from the verb habilitare, from habilitas, from habilis ‘able’).