Meaning & use
Rehabilitating
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restoring someone or something to health, good condition, or a former standing through treatment, training, or repair
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Physical therapists spent months rehabilitating his injured knee.
The nonprofit is rehabilitating abandoned buildings into affordable housing.
A note on using this word
Applies equally to people, such as rehabilitating an offender or a patient, and to physical structures or ecosystems being restored to a functional state.
Words with a similar meaning
restoringreforming
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Words with an opposite meaning
damagingneglecting
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