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rehab

rehab

250 3.4
A place that helps people recover from addiction or illness
  • noun
  • /ˈriːhæb/
  • Informal
translation icon : rehabilitación
  • 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.

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Examples

  • I sent her to rehab twice and she had just finished the 3 month internship.

  • I'm divorced, and my daughter is in rehab.

  • And I was supposed to start in a rehab like for mental health.

  • How much was that connected to rehab and that kind of stuff?

  • But yeah, I went to rehab and then I would try to go back to high school for like a month.

  • 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.

  • " 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.

  • After struggling with addiction for years, she finally committed to a three-month stay at a rehab to regain her health.

Synonyms

5 3.4

A planned course of treatment to help someone recover after illness, injury, or addiction

is a broader and less formal setting for recovery from illness or addiction

Antonyms

100 3.5

Not caring for someone or something that needs care

How Intensive

rehab
  • Informal
250 3.4
outpatient
  • Specialized
41 4.1
support group
66 2.8

Surface Forms

rehab singular
rehabs plural

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.