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REHABILITATE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does rehabilitate mean?
• REHABILITATE (verb)
The verb REHABILITATE has 3 senses:
1. help to readapt, as to a former state of health or good repute
3. restore to a state of good condition or operation
Familiarity information: REHABILITATE used as a verb is uncommon.
Dictionary entry details
Conjugation: |
Past simple: rehabilitated
Past participle: rehabilitated
-ing form: rehabilitating
Sense 1
Meaning:
Help to readapt, as to a former state of health or good repute
Classified under:
Verbs of political and social activities and events
Context example:
After a year in the mental clinic, the patient is now rehabilitated
Hypernyms (to "rehabilitate" is one way to...):
reconstruct; restore (return to its original or usable and functioning condition)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s somebody
Derivation:
rehabilitation (the restoration of someone to a useful place in society)
rehabilitative (designed to accomplish rehabilitation)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Reinstall politically
Classified under:
Verbs of political and social activities and events
Context example:
Deng Xiao Ping was rehabilitated several times throughout his lifetime
Hypernyms (to "rehabilitate" is one way to...):
reinstate (restore to the previous state or rank)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s somebody
Antonym:
purge (oust politically)
Derivation:
rehabilitation (the restoration of someone to a useful place in society)
rehabilitation (vindication of a person's character and the re-establishment of that person's reputation)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Restore to a state of good condition or operation
Classified under:
Verbs of political and social activities and events
Hypernyms (to "rehabilitate" is one way to...):
reconstruct; restore (return to its original or usable and functioning condition)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Derivation:
rehabilitation (the conversion of wasteland into land suitable for use of habitation or cultivation)
rehabilitation (the treatment of physical disabilities by massage and electrotherapy and exercises)
rehabilitative (helping to restore to good condition)
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