Rehabilitation \Re`ha*bil`i*ta"tion\ (-t?"sh?n), n. [Cf. LL.
rehabilitatio, F. R['e]habilitation.]
The act of rehabilitating, or the state of being
rehabilitated. --Bouvier. Walsh.
[1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
rehabilitation
n 1: the restoration of someone to a useful place in society
2: the conversion of wasteland into land suitable for use of
habitation or cultivation [syn: reclamation, renewal]
3: vindication of a person's character and the re-establishment
of that person's reputation
4: the treatment of physical disabilities by massage and
electrotherapy and exercises
WordNet (r) 2.0
65 Moby Thesaurus words for "rehabilitation":
about-face, adjustive reaction, adjustment, backing, backsliding,
clearance, clearing, destigmatization, destigmatizing,
disenchantment, exculpation, explanation, flip-flop, fulfillment,
improvement, instauration, integrated personality, justification,
lapse, psychosynthesis, purgation, purging, rationalization,
reactivation, readjustment, recidivation, recidivism, reclamation,
reconditioning, reconstitution, reconversion, redintegration,
reeducation, reenactment, reestablishment, reformation, regress,
regression, reinstatement, reinstation, reinstitution,
reinstruction, reinvestiture, reinvestment, relapse, repatriation,
replacement, restitution, restoration, retrocession,
retrogradation, retrogression, retroversion, return, returning,
reversal, reverse, reversion, reverting, revulsion, slipping back,
syntonic personality, turn, turnabout, vindication
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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