rehabilitate
verb (used with object)
to restore to a condition of good health, ability to work, or the like.
rehabilitates
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present tense formof rehabilitate (3rd person singular).present tense
Used to describe things happening now or regularly.
Example Sentences
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“I’m usually not a guy who rehabilitates someone when he writes about them,” Wolff told David Remnick on the New Yorker Radio Hour in July.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 15, 2025
Also in the field of women’s monstrosity, there’s Madeline Miller’s Circe and other contemporary feminist retellings, fiction that rehabilitates female villains of legend and literature, from Lady Macbeth to Baba Yaga to Japanese yokai.
From Slate ● Oct. 28, 2024
A mountain regional park and a conservation center that rescues and rehabilitates wildlife are also nearby.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 29, 2023
In Los Angeles County, the Marine Mammal Care Center rescues, rehabilitates and releases injured animals along the coast and on Catalina Island.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 9, 2023
Fire destroys falsehood,—that is to say, sophistry,—and rehabilitates truth, scattering the darkness.
From Thoughts on Art and Life by Leonardo da Vinci
