rehab

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See also: Rehab.

English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Clipping of rehabilitation.

Pronunciation[edit]

  • enPR: rēʹhăb, IPA(key): /ˈɹiːhæb/
  • (file)

Noun[edit]

rehab (countable and uncountable, plural rehabs)

  1. (informal) Rehabilitation, especially to treat the use of recreational drugs.
    go into rehab
  2. (informal) An institution for rehabilitation.
    • 2006, Amy Winehouse (lyrics and music), “Rehab”, in Back to Black:
      They tried to make me go to rehab, I said, 'no, no, no.'

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Verb[edit]

rehab (third-person singular simple present rehabs, present participle rehabbing, simple past and past participle rehabbed)

  1. (informal, transitive) To rehabilitate.

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Cebuano[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From English rehab, clipping of rehabilitation.

Pronunciation[edit]

  • Hyphenation: re‧hab

Noun[edit]

rehab

  1. a rehab; an institution for rehabilitation

Verb[edit]

rehab

  1. to rehabilitate; to return (someone) to good health after illness, addiction, etc.

Quotations[edit]

For quotations using this term, see Citations:rehab.

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Noun[edit]

rehab c

  1. (colloquial) rehab ((institution for) rehabilitation)

Declension[edit]

Declension of rehab 
Uncountable
Indefinite Definite
Nominative rehab rehaben
Genitive rehabs rehabens

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