rehabilitate
verb
[ riːhəˈbɪlɪteɪt ]
• restore (someone) to health or normal life by training and therapy after imprisonment, addiction, or illness.
• "helping to rehabilitate former criminals"
Similar:
restore to health/normality,
reintegrate,
readapt,
retrain,
rehab,
reinstate,
reinstall,
restore,
bring back,
re-establish,
pardon,
absolve,
exonerate,
exculpate,
forgive,
Origin:
late 16th century (earlier (late 15th century) as rehabilitation ) (in the sense ‘restore to former privileges’): from medieval Latin rehabilitat-, from the verb rehabilitare (see re-, habilitate).
