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rehab

  • /ˈɹiːhæb/

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Clipping of rehabilitation.

noun rehabs

  1. informal, uncountable Rehabilitation, especially to treat the use of recreational drugs. go into rehab
  2. countable, informal An institution for rehabilitation. The assimilationists would have you believe that there is no lesbian or gay underclass, white or of color. That the junkies, crackheads and rummies in the drunk-tanks and welfare rehabs are all straight. Our addicts all have ample checkbooks, the best insurance their professions can buy, and members
  3. countable, uncountable A brief period of time spent away from the fire by a firefighter at a fire scene, for purposes of recuperation.

verb rehabs · rehabbing · rehabbed

  1. informal, transitive To rehabilitate.

Thesaurus

Closest in meaning: rehabilitation, rehabilitative, recovery, reeducation, retraining, cure, re-education, readaptation, curing, reformation, habilitation, program, therapy, centre, care, detoxification

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noun An act of rehabilitation

Españolrehabilitación
中文復原 /复原 fùyuán
Françaisdésintox
DeutschReha
Italianoriabilitazione, riabilitazioni
Românăreabilitare

noun An institution for rehabilitation

Españolcentro de rehabilitación
DeutschRehaklinik
Italianocentro di riabilitazione
Русскийрехаб rexab

verb rehabilitate

Españolrehabilitar
Italianoriabilitare

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"rehab." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/rehab. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026.

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rehab. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/rehab

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"rehab." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/rehab.

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@misc{rehab_2026,
  title = {rehab},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/rehab},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}