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rehabilitate
Universal Words
verb [VN]
1 to help sb to have a normal, useful life again after they have been very ill/sick or in prison for a long time:
a unit for rehabilitating drug addicts
2 to begin to consider that sb is good or acceptable after a long period during which they were considered bad or unacceptable:
He played a major role in rehabilitating Magritte as an artist.
3 to return a building to its previous good condition:
Billions of pounds are being spent on rehabilitating inner-city areas.
rehabilitation noun [U]:
a drug rehabilitation centre * the rehabilitation of the steel industry
