rehabilitator
- noun
- /ˌriːəˈbɪlɪˌteɪtər/
- Wildlife rehabilitators are volunteers licensed by DEC to treat injured or orphaned wildlife.
- a wildlife rehabilitator
Examples
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The hawk was taken to a wildlife rehabilitator in Massapequa, Long Island, who will evaluate its condition.
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Several days later, the rehabilitator called.
Fiction book (2001) -
"I'll have to refer you to a rehabilitator."
Fiction book (2001) -
A DEC office can give you the numbers of local rehabilitators.
Fiction book (2001) -
If you're sure the animal is truly orphaned or injured, contact a wildlife rehabilitator.
Fiction book (2001) -
In the secretary's office, I looked up the numbers of the closest rehabilitators.
Fiction book (2001) -
Instead of taking in these animals ourselves, we refer all injured or orphaned wildlife to rehabilitators.
Fiction book (2001) -
If you find an injured bird, the best thing to do is call a wildlife rehabilitator for instructions.
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If you're sure the animal is truly orphaned or injured, contact a wildlife rehabilitator.
Synonyms
A person who helps others get better from physical or mental sickness, often using traditional ways
A person or thing that makes people and things seem young and full of energy
Someone or something that heals sickness and makes people better
A person who cares for people who are sick or hurt
Antonyms
How Skilled
Surface Forms
Morphology
rehabilitator = rehabilitate (transparent) = rehabilitate + or
The suffix '-or' regularly forms an agent noun meaning a person who performs the action of 'rehabilitate'.
Etymology
Rehabilitator comes from the parts re- meaning 'again' and a part meaning 'able', like the English word able. So a rehabilitator is someone who helps make a person or animal 'able again', which is why today it means a person who helps others recover or return to normal after illness, injury, or difficulty.