rehab
- noun
- /ˈriːhæb/
- Informal
- And when I got out of rehab, he was one of the first people that was like, oh, hey, let me take you out to dinner.
- go to rehab
- a rehab center
When people go into rehab, there are phases.
- When people go into rehab, there are phases.
- And I was supposed to start in a rehab like for mental health.
- And that was how he eventually got the the rehab that he needed.
- And she said, you can't come back to rehab until you try to get back on the bike.
- So the, the family story is that my dad went to rehab and my mom got sober.
- And you left the rehab or you kicked out?
- They had been through all kinds of treatment, individual therapy, rehab.
- And I would send then send those patients or clients to a drug and alcohol rehab in South Florida.
- We, we, we, we really didn't have a great system to get people into rehabs.
- And right in front, she went in, she did her two hours of rehab and she came outside and her car was gone.
- And she's about to go into foster care because her mom's going to go into rehab.
- I've just been in, I've been in this place for two months and I'm clean, but it's like you're clean because you've been in rehab, right?
- Saudi Arabia had just taken its first batch of non Saudi nationals into the rehab program, and they just happen to be from Yemen.
- But what I am saying is a lot of times the system put jail, put guys in jail when they need rehab.
Examples
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I sent her to rehab twice and she had just finished the 3 month internship.
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I'm divorced, and my daughter is in rehab.
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And I was supposed to start in a rehab like for mental health.
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How much was that connected to rehab and that kind of stuff?
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But yeah, I went to rehab and then I would try to go back to high school for like a month.
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I am giving him twenty dollars before he goes into a rehab program the next day.
Fiction book (1992) -
When people go into rehab, there are phases.
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" I went into rehab, and I've been in recovery ever since," Anderson says.
Academic text (2007) -
We pay for their medical treatment, every penny, we get them the very best therapists, childcare, rehab, whatever they need.
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After struggling with addiction for years, she finally committed to a three-month stay at a rehab to regain her health.
Synonyms
A planned course of treatment to help someone recover after illness, injury, or addiction
Antonyms
How Intensive
Surface Forms
Etymology
Rehab is short for rehabilitation, which has the prefix re- meaning 'again' and a root that means 'able', like in ability. So a rehab is a place that helps a person become 'able again' after illness or addiction.