rehab

Clipping of rehabilitation.

• enPR: rēʹhăb, IPA^(key): /ˈɹiːhæb/

• Audio (Canada):

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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.'

3. (firefighting) A brief period of time spent away from the fire by a firefighter at a fire scene, for purposes of recuperation.

• gut rehab

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

1. (informal, transitive) To rehabilitate.

• Baehr, Behar, Haber, hebra

From English rehab, clipping of rehabilitation.

• Hyphenation: re‧hab

rehab

1. a rehab; an institution for rehabilitation

rehab

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

For quotations using this term, see Citations:rehab.

rehab c

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

• rehabilitering (“rehabilitation”)

• rehab in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• rehab in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)