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/rˌihəbˈɪlətˌeɪt/ /rˌiəbˈɪlətˌeɪt/ Listen

Rehabilitate

verb

(past & past part. rehabilitated; pres. part. rehabilitating)

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"

Reinstall politically. Antonym: purge.

Restore to a state of good condition or operation.

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"Rehabilitate" Quotes from Famous Books

... said Stevens, a London stockbroker, here to rehabilitate a broken corporation, "if we English had this place, wouldn't there be a cleaning up! We'd build it solid and sanitary, and have proper rules to make ...

— Mystic Isles of the South Seas. • Frederick O'Brien

... up their homes, with no immediate hope of founding others, they must sell their belongings because they cannot afford to pay storage on them. The rich or richer store their household effects, and cheat themselves with the illusion that they are going some time to rehabilitate with them just such a home as they have dismantled. But the illusion probably deceives nobody so little as those who cherish the vain hope. As long as they cherish it, however—and they must cherish it till their furniture or themselves fall to dust—they ...

— Henry James, Jr. • William Dean Howells

... the Manchu had never touched. The Government of the post-Taiping period still imagined that by making their hands lie more heavily than ever on the people and by tightening the taxation control—not by true creative work—they could rehabilitate themselves. ...

— The Fight For The Republic in China • Bertram Lenox Putnam Weale

... of apparent indifference to public affairs in which he had rested since the close of his term in Congress. Douglas, coming home in the autumn, was so disagreeably received by an angry audience in Chicago that he felt it imperative to rehabilitate his stricken popularity. This difficult task he essayed at the great gathering of the State Fair in October. But Lincoln was put forward to answer him, and was brilliantly successful in doing so, if the highly colored ...

— Abraham Lincoln, Vol. I. • John T. Morse

... that cut a sizable sapling clean through at one stroke. He produced a carpenter properly qualified for repairs on an old house, because he had always lived in one and had been repairing it most of the time since childhood. He found us the right men to clean our well, to do our painting, to trim and rehabilitate our frowsy door-yard. He took me in his buggy to see some of these men; the rest he sent for. If you have ever undertaken a job like ours you have a pretty good idea of our ...

— Dwellers in Arcady - The Story of an Abandoned Farm • Albert Bigelow Paine

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