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- "Once you're through your nonelective surgeries, provided there aren't any complications—no infections from the splenectomy, no pneumonia, no problems with your lungs—we'll get you out of the hospital and into rehab," the social worker said.†
p. 40.9rehab = restore someone (or more rarely, something) to a state of good condition; or a program or facility or where that is done
- And as for me, I had Mia's rehabilitation to worry about, not my own.†
p. 42.3 *rehabilitation = to restore someone to a state of good condition
- And with speed that made me breathless, she was discharged from the hospital and dispatched to a rehab center, which looked like a condo complex, with flat paths crisscrossing the grounds, which were just beginning to bloom with spring flowers when Mia arrived.†
p. 42.7rehab = restore someone (or more rarely, something) to a state of good condition; or a program or facility or where that is done
- But life was churning outside Mia's rehab center, and somewhere out there in the world, that other Mia—the one who had two parents, a brother, and a fully working body—still continued to exist.†
p. 43.1
- Her therapists altered her rehabilitation plan, allowing her to spend more time practicing.†
p. 46.1rehabilitation = to restore someone to a state of good condition
- She left the rehab center after four weeks, two weeks ahead of schedule.†
p. 46.4rehab = restore someone (or more rarely, something) to a state of good condition; or a program or facility or where that is done
- Mia had been assigned a grief counselor in the hospital and rehab but had refused to continue seeing anyone once she'd come home, something Kim and I had argued against.†
p. 124.8
- Mia and I, well, she'd been in the hospital, then in rehab, and even if she hadn't been covered in stitches, plaster, and pressure bandages, there was no way.†
p. 148.7
Definitions:
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(1)
(rehabilitate) to restore someone (or more rarely, something) to a state of good condition -- such as recovery from addiction, illness, prison, or poor reputationRehab is sometimes used as an abbreviation for rehabilitation or a rehabilitation facility such as might be used to help someone recover from a drug addiction.
Although rehabilitate can be used generally, it is typically replaced with refurbish when talking about buildings or machines, and with recuperate when talking about recovery from an illness. - (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)