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rehabilitate
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1570s, "to bring back to a former condition after decay or damage," back-formation from rehabilitation and in part from Medieval Latin rehabilitatus , past participle of rehabilitare . Meaning "to restore one's reputation or character in the eyes of others" ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
vb. 1 (context transitive English) To restore (someone) to their former state, reputation, possessions, status etc. (from 16th c.) 2 (context transitive English) To vindicate; to restore the reputation or image of (a person, concept etc.). (from 18th c.) ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
v. reinstall politically; "Deng Xiao Ping was rehabilitated several times throughout his lifetime" [ant: purge ] restore to a state of good condition or operation help to re-adapt, as to a former state of health or good repute; "The prisoner was successfully ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
verb EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ Deaver devised the campaign to rehabilitate the First Lady's image. ▪ Programs have been established to help young adults rehabilitate or achieve their potential. ▪ The city will be using some of its tax dollars to rehabilitate ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Rehabilitate \Re`ha*bil"i*tate\ (r?`h?*b?l"?*t?t), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Rehabilitated (-t?`t?d); p. pr. & vb. n. Rehabilitating .] [Pref. re- re- + habilitate: cf. LL. rehabilitare, F. r['e]habiliter.] To invest or clothe again with some right, authority, ...
Usage examples of rehabilitate.
Ryan took plenty of liquids with extra glucose and fructose to help the muscles rehabilitate.
After Lenner had been rehabilitated, Doc had seen to it that the wife was well cared for, although Lenner never knew that he had been married.
Like Zhang Shu, other experienced teachers who had previously been accused of being rightists were now rehabilitated and allowed to return.
Then out of his door and down the walk strode--not the polychromatic victim of a lost summertime, but the sheepman, rehabilitated.
Celestian government gave in: promised to close down recruitment operations, help rehabilitate brainwashed Mandasars by bringing them back into mixed-caste hives, and recognize me as a sort of a kind of a spokesman for all Mandasars on the planet.
He rehabilitated the love-business as he and his wife had newly imagined it, and, to disguise the originals the more effectively, he made the girl, whom he had provisionally called Salome, more like himself than Louise in certain superficial qualities, though in an essential nobleness and singleness, which consisted with a great deal of feminine sinuosity and subtlety, she remained a portrait of Louise.
Apms, which occupied one of the 161 rehabilitated warehouses at Aimes Point, did business as a chandler, yacht broker, and sales and service center for marine engines of all makes, models, and capacities--f electric trollers the size of soup cans that could barely raise a wake to Chryslers with enough muscle to make a launch dance on its stern at fifty knots.
As a matter of faith, liberals believe: Darwinism is a fact, people are born gay, child-molesters can be rehabilitated, recycling is a virtue, and chastity is not.
Clyde Henderson, Gors and I debated what to do with the remaining dogs on duty: some of the dogs from overseas that had been sent back to the War Dog Training School had already been euthanized without ever having been given the chance to be rehabilitated.
There simply was no good reason that most of our dogs could not be rehabilitated.
Group to another in order that the dogs will become familiar with several persons and instill confidence and mutual respect between man and dog: enabling the dog to again become rehabilitated for return to normal civilian life.
When the dogs are considered to be temperamentally and physically rehabilitated for return to civilian life, the Head Trainer and the Chief Veterinarian will submit a joint report on the temperamental and physical condition of each dog to the Commanding Officer in writing, with recommendations for final disposition, for transmittal to higher authority.
Most of its ecosystems had been stripped down almost to the prokaryot level, but it was small enough to have been comprehensively rehabilitated.
The sweet young things that Goodbody here, in the ineffable goodness of his Christian heart, was trying to rehabilitate and save from a fate worse than death, would turn up at his services with Bibles clutched in their sweet little hands -- some of them, God help us, fetchingly dressed as nuns -- -then go away with different Bibles clutched in their sweet little hands and then peddle the damned stuff in the night-clubs.
Long unfashionable, even ridiculed (Dawkins, 1976), Zahavi's theory has recently been cleverly rehabilitated (Grafen, 1990 a, b) and is now taken seriously by evolutionary biologists (Dawkins, 1989).