rehabilitate

rehabilitate
verb
  1. [with obj.]restore (someone) to health or normal life by training and therapy after imprisonment, addiction, or illness
    (监禁、戒毒或病后通过培训和治疗)使…康复;使…恢复正常生活
    helping to rehabilitate former criminals.
    帮助前罪犯恢复正常生活。
    ■restore (someone) to former privileges or reputation after a period of critical or official disfavour
    恢复地位;恢复名誉,平反
    with the fall of the government many former dissidents were rehabilitated.
    随着政府的垮台,许多以前的持不同政见者平反了。
    ■return (something, especially an environmental feature) to its former condition
    恢复…的原状(尤指环境特征)
派生
rehabilitation
noun
rehabilitative
adjective
语源
  1. late 16th cent. (in the sense 'restore to former privileges'): from medieval Latin rehabilitat-, from the verb rehabilitare (see re-, habilitate)
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