rehabilitate
/ˌriːəˈbɪlɪteɪt/
verb
- To help someone return to a healthy, independent, or productive life after an illness, injury, or addiction.
- She spent six months in a center that rehabilitates people with drug addictions.
- The clinic works to rehabilitate patients after serious strokes.
- Physical therapy helped rehabilitate his knee after the surgery.
- To restore something to a good condition or to a former state of use or importance.
- Volunteers helped rehabilitate the park after the storm damaged it.
- The city plans to rehabilitate the old train station into a community center.
- The company tried to rehabilitate its image after the scandal.
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