to rehab
2
3.7
- verb
- /ˈriːhæb/
- Informal
:
rehabilitar
- They rehab Victorians in the Midwest and live in them until they sell.
- rehab a house
- build and rehab
Examples
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The organization aims to rehab old playgrounds to provide safer environments for children.
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Robin had just bought a two-flat in Albany Park; he was renting out the ground floor while living on top and trying to rehab the whole place in his spare time on weekends.
Fiction book (1990) -
I need to decide if it's better to rehab it or knock it down and rebuild.
Blog text (1) -
Planners began to rehab center city.
Blog text (19) -
They would build and rehab the new units the displaced poor would move into.
Blog text (26) -
Is it practical to rehab an existing SF house over an uninsulated basement to Passivhaus standards?
Blog text (1) -
I, too, would like to see the Met Council get behind a fairly massive effort to rehab existing housing structures in inner-ring and outer-ring suburbs, bring them up to present code, and through various programs, make them available to families of modest means.
Blog text (31) -
As I recall leaving the storyline a while back, the City of San Francisco was stepping in with its own financing to partially rehab Piers 30-32, and those would be the publicly accessible team bases for AC34.
Blog text (11) -
After they bought the rundown building, they decided to rehab it into a community center.
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The team was prepared to rehab the city park by planting trees and fixing the playground equipment.
Synonyms
485
2.8
Make something again after it is damaged or destroyed
234
3.8
Make someone feel healthy and full of energy again
76
3.8
To repair and improve a building or room so it looks new again
45
4.8
To give new life and energy to something
33
3.9
Build again something that was damaged or destroyed
31
4.6
To make something clean and like new by fixing or decorating it
25
4.7
To make land or buildings useful again by fixing them
9
4.9
To repair and return a building or system to good condition
6
5.5
Bring something back to a better or original state
3
5.4
To fix something so it works well again
Something that makes a person or thing feel stronger and more energetic
Giving new life and energy to people or things
Antonyms
How Thorough
485
2.8
219
3.5
- Informal
2
3.7
31
4.6
365
1.0
8
3.8
Surface Forms
Etymology
Rehab as a verb comes from rehabilitation, with re- 'again' and a root like ability meaning 'able'. So to rehab something is to repair or restore it so it works or looks 'able again'.