Complete Definition of "rehabilitate"

English

Etymology
re- + habilitate

Verb
en-verb|rehabilitat|es
#To restore or repair, to make habitable again.
#To rescue from a state of decadence or decrepitude.
#To return to good graces in the eyes of society after committing but suffering punishment for a crime.
The process of restoration of skills by a person who has had an illness or injury so as to regain maximum self-sufficiency and function in a normal or as near normal manner as possible.

Quotations
I turned over the piece of paper, and there, there on the other side, in the middle of the other side, away from everything else on the other side, in parenthesis, capital letters, quotated, read the following words:
:: (�KID, HAVE YOU REHABILITATED YOURSELF?�)
Attempts to rehabilitate liberals on this point are futile. It's in their DNA.

Derived terms
rehab
rehabilitation
rehabilitative

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