to rehabilitate

Examples

• All

• The program aims to rehabilitate former offenders by providing job training and counseling.

• Their job involves detecting, diagnosing, and rehabilitating injured athletes to return to play as expediently as possible.

  Academic text (2001)

• Does it work as a way to rehabilitate offenders from what you saw?

• We are now trying to rehabilitate him, so we can attempt a transplant.

  Smokin' Aces (2006)

• First, the findings point to the ability to successfully rehabilitate female drug offenders in the community.

  Academic text (2009)

• There was no effort to rehabilitate them so that they could remain positive contributors to the enterprise.

  Academic text (1990)

• At the end of the Civil War, there arose the dire need to rehabilitate the war victims.

  Academic text (2004)

• But it's like he went through this ACL surgery and the process to get him rehabilitated was so tough.

  Tom Ferry

• And Homeboy Industries helps provide services that help rehabilitate people who have been in gangs and who want to be enjoying a more productive or mainstream life.

• The conservation program Save Our Shearwaters reduces mortality from predators and other causes by collecting, rehabilitating, and releasing grounded shearwaters.

  Academic text (2012)

Synonyms

H

to heal

vsto rehabilitate

481 1.2

To become healthy again after an injury, illness, or emotional pain

assists return not only in health but also in ability or social standing

R

to restore

vsto rehabilitate

234 3.8

Make someone feel healthy and full of energy again

helps someone return with support to health, ability, or good standing

R

to reinstate

vsto rehabilitate

110 5.8

To return a person or thing to a previous position like a job

also covers returning health and ability not just official positions

R

to revive

vsto rehabilitate

104 4.2

Make something active or popular again after a time of being forgotten

helps people recover function and social standing rather than merely restarting activity

Antonyms

H

to harm

738 1.0

To cause a bad effect on people or things

I

to injure

53 1.6

Cause harm to people or things, for example to a company's good name

How Restored

to reintegrate

14 6.2

to restore

70 3.5

to rehabilitate

43 5.3

to treat

831 2.7

to assist

605 1.0

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology