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

2. reinstall politically

3. restore to a state of good condition or operation

  Familiarity information: REHABILITATE used as a verb is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• REHABILITATE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they rehabilitate    ... he / she / it rehabilitates   
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)