rehab
Americannoun
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rehabs
plural
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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.
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a rehabilitated building.
adjective
verb (used with object)
noun
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short for rehabilitation
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treatment for drink or drug addiction
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informal short for Rehabilitation Department
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Etymology
Origin of rehab
By shortening
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Thomas Markle, who is now reportedly in a rehab centre in Florida, told the Daily Mail the allegations against him were "sick lies".
From Barron's ● Oct. 24, 2026
His “Receding Portrait” takes readers on a fictional trip down the one-way staircase of old age, where a fall leads to hospitalization, hospitalization to rehab, rehab to recovery and recovery to another fall.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026
The firm, Stewarts, secured interim payments to fund his vital private rehab and care while negotiations were taking place.
From BBC ● Oct. 10, 2026
What happened to your friend is an all-too-common occurrence, and Medicare can foot the cost for necessary inpatient rehab, as long as its eligibility requirements are met.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 5, 2026
Not about the stroke and the rehab and all, just the good stuff.
From "Crash" by Jerry Spinelli
Housing costs in Maryland and on the East Coast have made Baltimore’s cheap homes far more attractive, giving investors and community developers the demand they need to take on complicated rehabs.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 17, 2026
And even when patients do spend the time and money to enter treatment, rehabs fail them.
From Slate ● Dec. 19, 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
“Suneep, you’ve been involved in some rehabs, right?”
From Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom by Cory Doctorow
“Medicaid reduced the claim from $260,000 down to $100,000 and then the city of Lynn loaned $100,000 to Habitat for Humanity, which rehabbed the home and gave Gunning a lease,” Ford said.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 25, 2026
Sutor has rehabbed seven dilapidated homes around Gary and purchased 20 empty lots for new-home construction.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 4, 2026
Kids scrambled up rehabbed trails, and some danced the schuhplattler, a Bavarian folk dance with lots of foot stomping and thigh and foot slapping.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2025
Many of the men being rehabbed by the right, though, don’t meet this standard.
From Slate ● Jun. 30, 2025
“Because he figured out that I hadn’t been rehabbed at all,” he said.
From "The Darkest Minds" by Alexandra Bracken
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
The Celtics were so prepared for a similarly long layoff that they sold off huge portions of their roster after Tatum’s injury, content to reset their finances while their leader spent the whole season rehabbing.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 22, 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
And he thought of it over a long summer and fall spent rehabbing the injured knee that failed him in his first week back to practice at USC.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 22, 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
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