Sample Sentences for
rehabilitate
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    We try to rehabilitate the women in our prison.
    rehabilitate = restore to good condition
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    The Brendas can't get jobs unless they're clean, and they can't pay for rehab unless they got jobs.  (source)
    rehab = a program to help people get off of recreational drugs
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    ...he had even developed some machines and methods to hasten rehabilitation.  (source)
    rehabilitation = restoration to a state of good condition
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    I spent that night at the hospital, and the next morning my parents brought me here, to the drug rehabilitation center.  (source)
    rehabilitation = return to a state of good condition
    standard suffix: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation.
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    Then he goes to this rehab or something for a while, but he gets to sleep at home, I think.†  (source)
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    Oh, but I am her daddy, boy, and court says I been rehabilitated.  (source)
    rehabilitated = restored to a state of good condition
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    My dad volunteered part-time at the bird rescue, where he helped rehabilitate snowy egrets hit by cars and pelicans that had swallowed fishhooks.†  (source)
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    This Circle needs to know that Peter Driscal is not rehabilitating well, either physically or emotionally.  (source)
    rehabilitating = returning to a state of good condition
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    It was the only serious rehabilitative program at Danbury (other than the puppies), and it is currently the only way in the federal system to significantly reduce your sentence.†  (source)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-ive" converts a word into an adjective; though over time, what was originally an adjective often comes to be used as a noun. The adjective pattern means tending to and is seen in words like attractive, impressive, and supportive. Examples of the noun include narrative, alternative, and detective.
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    They burned through their retirement money to pay for her first two rehabs.†  (source)
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    Cole talked about his rehabilitation after being rescued, and about returning to the island.  (source)
    rehabilitation = to restore someone to a state of good condition
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    My grandma wanted to use the money she saved for my college for rehab!†  (source)
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    In 1980 he was "rehabilitated" and appointed Vice President of the Children's Art Theater.†  (source)
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