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{
"term": "rehabilitate",
"partOfSpeech": "verb",
"verbForms": {
"presentSimple": {
"iYouWeThey": "rehabilitate",
"heSheIt": "rehabilitates"
},
"pastSimple": "rehabilitated",
"pastParticiple": "rehabilitated",
"ingForm": "rehabilitating"
},
"definitions": [
{
"senseNumber": 1,
"definition": "to help somebody to return to a normal, healthy life after they have been in prison or very ill",
"sensetop": "rehabilitate somebody",
"cefr": "c2",
"examples": [
{
"text": "We must do more to rehabilitate young offenders."
},
{
"text": "efforts to treat and rehabilitate drug addicts"
}
],
"topics": ["Healthcare"]
},
{
"senseNumber": 2,
"definition": "to begin to consider that somebody is good or acceptable after a long period during which they were considered bad or unacceptable",
"sensetop": "rehabilitate somebody (as something)",
"examples": [
{
"text": "He played a major role in rehabilitating Magritte as an artist."
}
]
},
{
"senseNumber": 3,
"definition": "to return a building or an area to its previous good condition",
"sensetop": "rehabilitate something",
"examples": [
{
"text": "Billions of pounds are being spent on rehabilitating inner-city areas."
}
]
}
],
"pronunciations": {
"uk": [
{
"pronunciation": "/ˌriːəˈbɪlɪteɪt/",
"audio": "re/rehabilitate/rehabilitate__gb_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/ˌriːəˈbɪlɪteɪts/",
"audio": "re/rehabilitate/rehabilitates__gb_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/ˌriːəˈbɪlɪteɪtɪd/",
"audio": "re/rehabilitate/rehabilitated__gb_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/ˌriːəˈbɪlɪteɪtɪŋ/",
"audio": "re/rehabilitate/rehabilitating__gb_1.mp3"
}
],
"us": [
{
"pronunciation": "/ˌriːəˈbɪlɪteɪt/",
"audio": "re/rehabilitate/rehabilitate__us_1_rr.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/ˌriːəˈbɪlɪteɪts/",
"audio": "re/rehabilitate/rehabilitates__us_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/ˌriːəˈbɪlɪteɪtɪd/",
"audio": "re/rehabilitate/rehabilitated__us_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/ˌriːəˈbɪlɪteɪtɪŋ/",
"audio": "re/rehabilitate/rehabilitating__us_1.mp3"
}
]
},
"wordOrigin": "late 16th cent. (earlier (late 15th cent.) as rehabilitation) (in the sense ‘restore to former privileges’): from medieval Latin rehabilitat-, from the verb rehabilitare (from re- and habilitate, from medieval Latin habilitat- ‘made able’, from the verb habilitare, from habilitas, from habilis ‘able’)."
}