Rehabilitate

Definitions: Rehabilitate

Rehabilitate

Verb

1. Help to re-adapt, as to a former state of health or good repute.

2. Restore the strength or health of; "This patient is now completely rehabilitated".

3. Reinstall politically; "Deng Xiao Ping was rehabilitated several times throughout his lifetime".

Date "rehabilitate" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1855. (references)

Antonym: purge (v). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Restitution	Verb: return, restore; give back, carry back, bring back; render, render up; give up; let go, unclutch; disgorge, regorge; regurgitate; recoup, reimburse, compensate, indemnify; remit, rehabilitate; repair; (make good).
Restoration	Restore, put back, place in statu quo; reinstate, replace, reseat, rehabilitate, reestablish, reestate, reinstall.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Rehabilitate

English words defined with "rehabilitate": Rehabilitating. (references)

Specialty definitions using "rehabilitate": ART THERAPIST ♦ Bankhead-Jones Farm Tenant Act of 1937 ♦ Community Facilities Program ♦ Emergency Conservation Program ♦ HORTICULTURAL THERAPIST. (references)

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	What did you want me to do? Capture 'em and rehabilitate 'em? (Annie Hall; writing credit: Woody Allen ; Marshall Brickman)
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Domain	Title
Books	Can Prisons Rehabilitate (reference) How to Combat Substance Abuse and Rehabilitate Otherwise Valuable Employees (reference) How to Rehabilitate an Abandoned Building (reference) It's time to rehabilitate the sentencing process (reference) Peak Condition: Winning Strategies to Prevent, Treat, and Rehabilitate Sports Injuries (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	Helicopter spreads seeds to rehabilitate after fire in Chelan Butter.Credit: Neal Hedges.
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Subject	Topic	Quote
Health		Stroke disability is devastating to the stroke patient and family, but therapies are available to help rehabilitate post-stroke patients. (references)
		An audiologist is a hearing health care professional who is trained to identify, measure, and rehabilitate hearing impairment and related disorders. (references)
		Have a medical examination by an otolaryngologist, a physician who specializes in diseases of the ears, nose, throat, head and neck, and a hearing test by an audiologist, a health professional trained to identify and measure hearing loss and to rehabilitate persons with hearing impairments. (references)
Business		Foreign companies could take advantage of the Romanian determination to rehabilitate the energy sector by selling licenses, know-how and special equipment to existing power equipment manufacturing facilities. (references)
		In general, these bodies lack the resources to provide high levels of care. Hence the government has been working on efforts to rehabilitate and modernize its services with help from international financial organizations. (references)
Children	Lebanon	Limited financial resources have hindered efforts to build adequate facilities to rehabilitate delinquents. (references)
	Israel and the occupied territories	In 2000 the Government implemented a law seeking to rehabilitate and integrate persons with mental disabilities into the community; however, government discrimination against persons with mental disabilities remained a problem. (references)
	Afghanistan	According to a report of the Gender Advisor to the U.N. system in Afghanistan, the educational sector suffered from: Limited human and financial resources; the absence of a national educational policy and curriculum; the inability of authorities to rehabilitate destroyed facilities; and discriminatory policies banning the access of females to all levels of education. (references)
Economic History	Mozambique	Efforts are underway to rehabilitate these industries. (references)
	Kenya	The government has been struggling to repair and rehabilitate the most affected infrastructure. (references)
	Malaysia	One of the focal points is to upgrade and rehabilitate the existing water supply system to improve its efficiency. (references)
Human Rights	Congo	The Ministry of Justice continued slowly to rehabilitate courthouses during the year. (references)
	Honduras	CODEH and the Center for the Prevention, Treatment, and Rehabilitation of Victims of Torture and their Relatives continued government-funded programs to train police and prison personnel to avoid committing acts of torture, to train and rehabilitate prisoners, and to arrange for periodic inspections of prisons. (references)
Minorities	Slovak Republic	Despite protests by the Federation of Jewish Communities and Slovak National Party members, the official Slovak cultural organization Matica Slovenska continued their efforts to rehabilitate the historical reputation of Jozef Tiso, the leader of the Nazi-collaborationist wartime Slovak state. (references)
Women	Venezuela	The second is the Women's Shelters Program, a series of centers being built to receive, care for, and rehabilitate women in distress. (references)
Worker Rights	Nepal	There are programs in place to train the police and the MOWCSW works closely with local NGO's to rehabilitate and otherwise assist victims. (references)
	Algeria	The Committee stated that it has been urging the Government for many years to cease imposing prison labor to rehabilitate persons convicted for expressing certain political views. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

"Rehabilitate" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 91.18% of the time. "Rehabilitate" is used about 68 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Lexical Verb (infinitive)	91.18%	62	42,755
Noun (singular)	5.88%	4	175,879
Lexical Verb (base form)	2.94%	2	245,945
Total	100.00%	68	N/A

Expression using "rehabilitate": rehabilitate oneself. Additional references.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Language		Translations for "rehabilitate"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		riparoj (do up, doctor, fix, mend, recondition, refit, renew, renovate, repair, solder), riaftësoj, riabilitoj, restauroj (do up, re establish, reclaim, renew, restore). (various references)

Arabic		‏أعاد التعليم, ‏أعاد التأهيل (reestablish), ‏أصلح (amend, fix, mend, overhaul, pacify, piece, reclaim, recondition, rectify, redeem, redress, refit, reform, renovate, repair, retrieve, rig, right, see, set right), ‏رمم (furbish, mend, patch, recondition, reconstructed, redeem, refit, refurbish, refurbishment, renovate, repair, restore, revamp), ‏رد إعتبار. (various references)

Bulgarian		рехабилитирам, реабилитирам (exculpate, exonerate, vindicate, whitewash), преустройвам (realign, reorganize), подобрявам (ameliorate, amend, better, get better, help, improve, improve on, make better, meliorate, mend, perfect, polish, polish up, remedy, smarten up). (various references)

Chinese		恢复原状 (rehabilitated, Rehabilitating, unscramble). (various references)

Czech		rehabilitovat. (various references)

Danish		genetablering af forurenede industriområde (to rehabilitate a polluted industrial site). (various references)

Dutch		ROT (addled, bad, gang, operate and transfer, rat, rot, rotten, squad, ugly), rehabilitate,operate and transfer (operate and transfer). (various references)

Farsi		نوتوان کردن , توانبخشی کردن , تجدیداسکان کردن , ترمیم کردن (Amend, Reform), اعاده حیثیت کردن , دارای امتیازات اولیه کردن , بحال نخست برگرداندن . (various references)

Finnish		kuntouttaa. (various references)

French		réhabiliter (re establish, restore), réadapter (readjust), rééduquer (re educate). (various references)

German		sanieren (redevelop, renovate, to rehabilitate). (various references)

Greek		επανακαθιστώ (condition), επανορθώ (reclaim, rectify, redress, retrieve, right), ανασυγκροτώ, αποκαθιστώ (recondition, redintegrate, reinstate, remedy, restitute, restore, set up, settle, to restore). (various references)

Hebrew		לשקם (re educate, reconstruct, restore), לט�"ר שם. (various references)

Hungarian		rehabilitál (reeducate, to rehabilitate), visszahelyez jogaiba. (various references)

Indonesian		merehabilitasi. (various references)

Italian		ricuperare (get back, make up for, reclaim, recoup, recover, recuperate, recycle, retrieve, salvage), riabilitare (reclaim, redeem), reinserire (reinsert). (various references)

Manx		aalannaghey. (various references)

Pig Latin		ehabilitateray

Portuguese		reabilitar. (various references)

Romanian		restaura (renovate, restore), restabili (piece up, re establish, recover, recruit, redintegrate, redress, reinstate, reintroduce, reseat, reset, resettle, restore, retrieve), reabilita (discharge, exonerate, remit, retrieve, vindicate, whitewash). (various references)

Russian		реабилитировать (exculpate, exonerate, rehabbed, rehabbing, rehabs). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		rehabilitovati. (various references)

Spanish		rehabilitar (discharge, reinstate). (various references)

Swedish		ge upprättelse åt. (various references)

Thai		ฟื้นฟูสุข� าพ, ทำให้ตึกหรืออาคารกลับสู่ส� าพเ�"ิม, กู้ชื่อเสียง (redeem). (various references)

Turkish		rehabilite etmek, tamir etmek (cobble, debug, do up, fix, mend, recondition, redintegrate, refit, renovate, repair, service, tinker up), sağlığına kavuşturmak, iyileştirmek (ameliorate, amend, better, cicatrize, cleanse, cure, heal, improve, make better, nurse, pull round, pull through, recruit, recuperate, remedy, set up, upgrade), itibarını iade etmek (right), iade etmek (extradite, give back, remand, restitute, restore, retrocede, return, turn in), hakları geri vermek, eski haline döndürmek. (various references)

Ukranian		реабілітувати (exculpate, exonerate, vindicate, whitewash), відбудовувати (rebuild, redeem). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	recolo. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "rehabilitate": rehabilitated, rehabilitates. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Rehabilitate" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: rehabiitate, rehabilatate, rehabilitee, rehalbilitate. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "rehabilitate" (pronounced rē'hubi"lutā't or rē'ubi"lutā't)
8	-u b i" l u t ā' t	debilitate.
6	-i" l u t ā' t	facilitate, militate.
4	-u t ā' t	acetate, agitate, amputate, annotate, cogitate, decapitate, gravitate, hesitate, imitate, incapacitate, irritate, levitate, meditate, necessitate, precipitate, premeditate, resuscitate, vegetate.
3	-t ā' t	devastate, downstate, mutate, overstate, potentate, prostate, punctate, rotate, tristate, understate.
8	-u b i" l u t ā' t	debilitate.
6	-i" l u t ā' t	facilitate, militate.
4	-u t ā' t	acetate, agitate, amputate, annotate, cogitate, decapitate, gravitate, hesitate, imitate, incapacitate, irritate, levitate, meditate, necessitate, precipitate, premeditate, resuscitate, vegetate.
3	-t ā' t	devastate, downstate, mutate, overstate, potentate, prostate, punctate, rotate, tristate, understate.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-a-b-e-e-h-i-i-l-r-t-t"
	-2 letters: habilitate.
	-3 letters: aliterate, biathlete, heartbeat, heritable, retaliate, treatable.
	-4 letters: batterie, hateable, hatteria, hearable, heatable, hetairai, hireable, laterite, liberate, libretti, literate, literati, rateable, tearable, tithable, titrable, trabeate.
	-5 letters: abettal, abetter, arietta, ariette, atelier, athlete, battier, battler, beretta, biretta, bittier, blather, blatter, bleater, blether, blither, brattle, breathe, brittle, eatable, habitat, halbert, haltere, hatable, hetaera, hetaira, hirable.
	Words containing the letters "a-a-b-e-e-h-i-i-l-r-t-t"
	+1 letter: rehabilitated, rehabilitates.
	+2 letters: rehabilitative, weatherability.
	+3 letters: breathabilities.
	+4 letters: weatherabilities.
	+5 letters: merchantabilities.
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