rehabilitate

🇺🇸 /ˌriːəˈbɪlɪteɪt/ 🇬🇧 /ˌriːəˈbɪlɪteɪt/
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verb
R

to help someone return to normal life after prison or illness

Programs help rehabilitate people who have been sick or in jail.

R

to make people see someone as good again after thinking they were bad

It took years to rehabilitate his reputation after the scandal.

R

to fix and improve a building or area to make it good again

The city plans to rehabilitate old buildings in the downtown area.

translation

v. to help someone return to normal life after prison or illness; to make people see someone as good again after thinking they were bad; to fix and improve a building or area to make it good again

Word Forms

3rd Present rehabilitates
Past rehabilitated
Perfect rehabilitated
Progressive rehabilitating