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Definition of Rehabilitate

1. Verb. Help to readapt, as to a former state of health or good repute. "After a year in the mental clinic, the patient is now rehabilitated"

2. Verb. Reinstall politically. "Deng Xiao Ping was rehabilitated several times throughout his lifetime"

3. Verb. Restore to a state of good condition or operation.

Definition of Rehabilitate

1. v. t. To invest or clothe again with some right, authority, or dignity; to restore to a former capacity; to reinstate; to qualify again; to restore, as a delinquent, to a former right, rank, or privilege lost or forfeited; - - a term of civil and canon law.

Definition of Rehabilitate

1. Verb. (transitive) To restore (someone) to their former state, reputation, possessions, status etc. (defdate from 16th c.) ¹

2. Verb. (transitive) To vindicate; to restore the reputation or image of (a person, concept etc.). (defdate from 18th c.) ¹

3. Verb. (transitive) To return (something) to its original condition. (defdate from 19th c.) ¹

4. Verb. (transitive North America) To restore or repair (a vehicle, building); to make habitable or usable again. (defdate from 19th c.) ¹

5. Verb. (transitive) To restore to (a criminal etc.) the necessary training and education to allow for a successful reintegration into society; to retrain. (defdate from 19th c.) ¹

6. Verb. (transitive) To return (someone) to good health after illness, addiction etc. (defdate from 19th c.) ¹

7. Verb. (intransitive) To go through such a process; to recover. (defdate from 20th c.) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Rehabilitate

1. habilitate [v -TATED, -TATING, -TATES] - See also: habilitate

Lexicographical Neighbors of Rehabilitate

regurgitating regurgitation regurgitation jaundice regurgitations regurgitator regurgitators regurs reh rehab rehabbed

rehabber rehabbers rehabbing rehabilitant rehabilitants rehabilitate (current term) rehabilitated rehabilitates rehabilitating rehabilitation

rehabilitation centres rehabilitation nursing rehabilitation of hearing impaired rehabilitation of speech and language disorders rehabilitation program rehabilitationism rehabilitationist rehabilitationists rehabilitations rehabilitative

Literary usage of Rehabilitate

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The History of the Popes, from the Close of the Middle Ages: Drawn from the by Ludwig Pastor, Frederick Ignatius Antrobus, Ralph Francis Kerr (1891)
"... days to rehabilitate the moral character of this man. In the face of such a perversion of the truth, it is the duty of the historian to show that the ..."

2. Value and Distribution: An Historical, Critical, and Constructive Study in by Charles William Macfarlane (1898)
"Cairnes, who sought to rehabilitate the wages fund doctrine, added but little to this part of the discussion. He admitted Thornton's contention that within ..."

3. Chambers's Encyclopaedia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge (1901)
"... Knox and Andrew Melville; Lytton's life; Spedding's Bacon, an elaborate and not unsuccessful attempt to rehabilitate a hero; ..."

4. The Care of the Body by Francis Cavanagh (1907)
"Lomi-Lomi "—Suggestion to Channel swimmers—Procedure—Flicking and slapping to rehabilitate the devitalised—Value to boxers and the fatigued. ..."

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