rehabilitation

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   The process of helping someone recover health, skills, or a normal life after illness, injury, or addiction.

   After the accident, she needed months of rehabilitation to walk again.

2. 2
   noun

   The process of restoring a building or area to good condition.

   The rehabilitation of the old factory turned it into modern flats.

3. 3
   noun

   The act of restoring someone's good reputation.

   His rehabilitation in the eyes of the public took many years.

From Middle French réhabilitation, from Medieval Latin rehabilitatio.

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