rehab
Americannoun
-
rehabs
plural
-
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.
adjective
verb (used with object)
noun
-
short for rehabilitation
-
treatment for drink or drug addiction
-
informal short for Rehabilitation Department
Other Word Forms
Derived Forms
Inflected Forms
Nouns
Etymology
Origin of rehab
By shortening
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
See Examples For:
For decades, Baltimore owed the intractability of its vacant housing crisis to simple economics: It cost more to rehab a vacant home than that renovated home could be sold for.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 17, 2026
“I don’t know if it’s just, you want to be perfect, you’re trying to get your feet under you, you’ve been in rehab mode a lot,” Roberts said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 9, 2026
He hopes to begin a minor-league rehab assignment around the end of the month or beginning of September.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 8, 2026
After months of hospitalization and rehab, Reile slid into a deep depression.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 2, 2026
She had seen pictures of the rehab place online.
From "Far from the Tree" by Robin Benway
Over the course of my training, I’ve learned that evidence-based medical treatments are often not found within rehabs across the country.
From Slate ● Dec. 19, 2025
In response, they are more selective in the projects they choose, focusing on lighter rehabs and faster turnarounds.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 10, 2025
Catchers Sofia Mujica and Maggie Daniel will split duties behind the plate while Alexis Ramirez rehabs from a torn ACL.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 14, 2025
“Samples from small mammals are rolling in now and things at the wildlife rehabs pick up substantially in spring,” he says.
From Science Magazine ● Apr. 29, 2024
I wondered if she was the right person for the job: she seemed awfully enamored of the rehabs that Debra and her crew had performed.
From Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom by Cory Doctorow
She and her family bought and moved into a vacant home rehabbed by nonprofit developer Parity Homes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 17, 2026
Many of the men being rehabbed by the right, though, don’t meet this standard.
From Slate ● Jun. 30, 2025
Dobbins suffered the injury the same week as New York Jets quarterback Aaron Rodgers, who then became a partner as the pair rehabbed together during the season.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2024
In one sequence, marine biologists lovingly restore a rehabbed coral polyp to a reef.
From New York Times ● Apr. 21, 2024
The city built a new prison, moved the inmates into their new quarters, then rehabbed the old prison and turned it into a high school.
From "Hole in My Life" by Jack Gantos
Dodger utility man Kiké Hernandez said he wasn’t going, either, explaining that he was busy rehabbing an injury.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 24, 2026
Carlos Alcaraz will not defend his French Open title because of a wrist injury, while world number seven Taylor Fritz has been resting and rehabbing a long-term knee problem since March.
From BBC ● May 6, 2026
That’s a frightening thing, considering Paramount has already announced plans to continue rehabbing disgraced “Melania” director Brett Ratner’s career with a new “Rush Hour” film.
From Salon ● Mar. 6, 2026
Marquez spent the winter rehabbing from his latest injury and he admitted that he was not quite back to full fitness in Malaysia.
From Barron's ● Feb. 25, 2026
It was a temporary gig, and after five months he moved on to rehabbing homes in the city—another temporary job.
From "The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates" by Wes Moore
Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
