- 1rehabilitate somebody to help someone to have a normal, useful life again after they have been very sick or in prison for a long time a unit for rehabilitating drug addicts
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- 2rehabilitate somebody (as something) to begin to consider that someone is good or acceptable after a long period during which they were considered bad or unacceptable He played a major role in rehabilitating Magritte as an artist.
- 3rehabilitate something to return a building or an area to its previous good condition Billions of dollars are being spent on rehabilitating inner-city areas.
rehabilitate
verbNAmE//ˌriəˈbɪləˌteɪt//, NAmE//ˌrihəˈbɪləˌteɪt//
Verb Forms present simple I / you / we / they rehabilitate he / she / it rehabilitates
past simple rehabilitated
-ing form rehabilitating
NAmE//ˌriəˌbɪləˈteɪʃn//, NAmE//ˌrihəˌbɪləˈteɪʃn//
noun [uncountable] a drug rehabilitation center the rehabilitation of the steel industrySee rehabilitate in the Oxford Advanced Learner's DictionaryCheck pronunciation: rehabilitate