rehab
[ree-hab]Informal.
- 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.
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- of or relating to rehabilitation: funds for new rehab projects in the city.
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- to rehabilitate.
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Origin of rehab
by shortening
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Examples from the Web for rehab
Contemporary Examples
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.
The Amanda Bynes Train Wreck Is Back Again, Following a New DUI ArrestKevin Fallon
September 29, 2014
Before he played, his wife, Sharon contacted Simon and told him that her husband was recently out of rehab.
Inside London’s Wild Brixton Academy: How Gangsters and Kurt Cobain Made It London’s Top Music VenueTom Sykes
September 29, 2014
I went to rehab in 2009, so that video is from sometime in April 2009.
Tom Sizemore’s Revenge: On Tom Cruise’s Scientology Recruitment, Drugs, and Craving a ComebackMarlow Stern
September 26, 2014
Historical Examples
But meanwhile the Rehab Shop was taken over by officers of rank.
The Machine That Saved The WorldWilliam Fitzgerald Jenkins
I had a rehab to finish, and I was the only one who understood how it had to be done.
Down and Out in the Magic KingdomCory Doctorow
The Rehab is the violin of Palestine, and in appearance almost suggests to European eyes a dustpan and brush.
Chatterbox, 1906Various
Yes, they probably stayed alive quite a while—or might, except for the rehab crew.
The Galaxy PrimesEdward Elmer Smith
The Rehab Shop was equipped not only to recondition machines but to test them.
The Machine That Saved The WorldWilliam Fitzgerald Jenkins
rehab
- short for rehabilitation
- treatment for drink or drug addiction
- NZ informal short for Rehabilitation Department
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Word Origin and History for rehab
1948 as a shortening of rehabilitation (originally of service members returning from World War II). As a verb in reference to houses, by 1975, short for rehabilitate. Related: Rehabbed; rehabbing.
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Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper
rehab
(rē′hăb′)- Rehabilitation.
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