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rehab

[ ree-hab ]

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noun

rehabilitation, especially a program or facility for treating persons addicted to drugs or alcohol or recovering from certain medical conditions:
He's been sober since coming out of rehab.
She checked into rehab after suffering a stroke.
a rehabilitated building.

, re·habbed, re·hab·bing.

rehab

/ ˈriːhæb /

Origin of rehab¹

By shortening

He called a wildlife rehab person at the community college to whom he had taken birds other than eagles in the past.

From 1992 and 2007, the number of middle-aged women who checked into rehab nearly tripled.

Despite the fact she apologized and went to rehab, she lost nearly all of her contracts.

Just shy of one year after checking out of a rehab facility, it seemed like Amanda Bynes was doing well.

Before he played, his wife, Sharon contacted Simon and told him that her husband was recently out of rehab.

Then, to the Engineer, "Do you know how they rehab a planet that's been leveled flat by the golop?"

The reported broadcast was, of course, an interception of the two-way talk from the Rehab Shop.

No work was being done on the rehab, then, and the Liberty Belle would be sitting at her dock.

I let go of her hand and ran down an abbreviated version of the rehab plans, leaving out anything about Debra and her ad-hocs.

The Rehab Shop was equipped not only to recondition machines but to test them.

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