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rehabilitate 中文解釋 wordnet sense Collocation Usage Collins Definition
Verb
/ˌrē(h)əˈbiləˌtāt/,
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rehabilitates, 3rd person singular present; rehabilitating, present participle; rehabilitated, past tense; rehabilitated, past participle;
  1. Restore (someone) to health or normal life by training and therapy after imprisonment, addiction, or illness
    • - helping to rehabilitate former criminals
  2. Restore (someone) to former privileges or reputation after a period of critical or official disfavor
    • - with the fall of the government many former dissidents were rehabilitated
  3. Return (something, esp. an environmental feature) to its former condition


  1. help to readapt, as to a former state of health or good repute; "The prisoner was successfully rehabilitated"; "After a year in the mental clinic, the patient is now rehabilitated"
  2. reinstall politically; "Deng Xiao Ping was rehabilitated several times throughout his lifetime"
  3. restore to a state of good condition or operation
  4. (rehabilitation) the restoration of someone to a useful place in society
  5. (rehabilitation) reclamation: the conversion of wasteland into land suitable for use of habitation or cultivation
  6. (rehabilitation) vindication of a person's character and the re-establishment of that person's reputation
  7. Rehabilitation (реабилитация) in the context of the former Soviet Union, and the Post-Soviet states, was the restoration of a person who was criminally prosecuted without due basis, to the state of acquittal. A form of political rehabilitation as relates to the Soviet Union.
  8. (Rehabilitation (neuropsychology)) Rehabilitation of sensory and cognitive function typically involves methods for retraining neural pathways or training new neural pathways to regain or improve neurocognitive functioning that has been diminished by disease or traumatic injury.
  9. (Rehabilitation (penology)) Rehabilitation means; To restore to useful life, as through therapy and education or To restore to good condition, operation, or capacity.
  10. (Rehabilitation (political)) Political rehabilitation is the process by which a member of a political organization or government who has fallen into disgrace, is restored to public life. ...
  11. (Rehabilitation (wildlife)) Wildlife rehabilitation is the process of removing from the wild and caring for injured, orphaned, or sick wild animals. The goal of wildlife rehabilitation is to provide the food, housing and medical care of these animals, returning them to the wild after treatment.
  12. To restore (someone) to their former state, reputation, possessions, status etc. [from 16th c.]; To vindicate; to restore the reputation or image of (a person, concept etc.). [from 18th c.]; To return (something) to its original condition. [from 19th c. ...
  13. (rehabilitation) The process of rehabilitating something
  14. (Rehabilitated) A process applied to used vehicles in severely dilapidated and possibly non-working condition,  and restores them to full working order to the extent that the vendor can give a meaningful warranty.
  15. (Rehabilitation) Comprehensive program to reduce/overcome deficits following injury or illness, and to assist the individual to attain the optimal level of mental and physical ability.
  16. (Rehabilitation) Rehabilitative services are ordered by your doctor to help you recover from an illness or injury. These services are given by nurses and physical, occupational, and speech therapists.
  17. (Rehabilitation) The creation of landforms, land productivity and land uses that are compatible with existing land uses in the surrounding area. ...
  18. (Rehabilitation (of a debtor)) A wage earner's plan; a type of partial bankruptcy where a debtor keeps property and pays a court-established portion of a debt.
  19. (REHABILITATION) restoration of a parcel of real property, or neighborhood to bring it back to its full (highest & best) potential use.
  20. (Rehabilitation) The activities necessary to repair damage or disturbance caused by wildland fires or the fire suppression activity.
  21. (Rehabilitation) The act or process of returning a property to a state of utility through repair or alteration which makes possible an efficient contemporary use while preserving those portions or features of the property which are significant to its historical, architectural and cultural values.
  22. (Rehabilitation) Restoration, following disease, illness or injury, of the ability to function in a normal or near-normal manner.
  23. (Rehabilitation) The return of function after illness or injury, often with the assistance of specialized medical professionals.
  24. (Rehabilitation) The combined and coordinated use of medical, social, educational, and vocational measures for training or retaining individuals disabled by disease or injury to the highest possible level of functional ability. ...
  25. (rehabilitation) the process of repairing or modifying a structure to a desired useful condition.  (See also preservation, repair, and restoration.)