rehabilitate
verbVerb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they rehabilitate | |
| he / she / it rehabilitates | |
| past simple rehabilitated | |
| past participle rehabilitated | |
| -ing form rehabilitating |
- rehabilitate somebody
to help somebody to have a normal, useful life again after they have been very ill or in prison for a long time 使（重病患者）康复；使（长期服刑者）恢复正常生活 a unit for rehabilitating drug addicts 帮助吸毒者恢复正常生活的机构 The new proposals involve rehabilitating even more patients for life outside hospital. 新的提议包括让更多的病人在医院外终身康复。
- rehabilitate somebody (as something)
to begin to consider that somebody is good or acceptable after a long period during which they were considered bad or unacceptable 恢复…的名誉；给…平反昭雪 - rehabilitate something
to return a building or an area to its previous good condition 使（建筑物或地区）恢复原状；修复 Billions of pounds are being spent on rehabilitating inner-city areas. 数十亿英镑正被用于重建市中心地区。
Word Originlate 16th cent. (earlier (late 15th cent.) as rehabilitation) (in the sense ‘restore to former privileges’): from medieval Latin rehabilitat-, from the verb rehabilitare (from re- and habilitate, from medieval Latin habilitat- ‘made able’, from the verb habilitare, from habilitas, from habilis ‘able’).