{
    "term": "rehabilitate",
    "partOfSpeech": "verb",
    "verbForms": {
        "presentSimple": {
            "iYouWeThey": "rehabilitate",
            "heSheIt": "rehabilitates"
        },
        "pastSimple": "rehabilitated",
        "pastParticiple": "rehabilitated",
        "ingForm": "rehabilitating"
    },
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "to help somebody to return to a normal, healthy life after they have been in prison or very ill",
            "sensetop": "rehabilitate somebody",
            "cefr": "c2",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "We must do more to rehabilitate young offenders."
                },
                {
                    "text": "efforts to treat and rehabilitate drug addicts"
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Healthcare"]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "to begin to consider that somebody is good or acceptable after a long period during which they were considered bad or unacceptable",
            "sensetop": "rehabilitate somebody (as something)",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "He played a major role in rehabilitating Magritte as an artist."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 3,
            "definition": "to return a building or an area to its previous good condition",
            "sensetop": "rehabilitate something",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "Billions of pounds are being spent on rehabilitating inner-city areas."
                }
            ]
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˌriːəˈbɪlɪteɪt/",
                "audio": "re/rehabilitate/rehabilitate__gb_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˌriːəˈbɪlɪteɪts/",
                "audio": "re/rehabilitate/rehabilitates__gb_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˌriːəˈbɪlɪteɪtɪd/",
                "audio": "re/rehabilitate/rehabilitated__gb_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˌriːəˈbɪlɪteɪtɪŋ/",
                "audio": "re/rehabilitate/rehabilitating__gb_1.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˌriːəˈbɪlɪteɪt/",
                "audio": "re/rehabilitate/rehabilitate__us_1_rr.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˌriːəˈbɪlɪteɪts/",
                "audio": "re/rehabilitate/rehabilitates__us_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˌriːəˈbɪlɪteɪtɪd/",
                "audio": "re/rehabilitate/rehabilitated__us_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˌriːəˈbɪlɪteɪtɪŋ/",
                "audio": "re/rehabilitate/rehabilitating__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "late 16th cent. (earlier (late 15th cent.) as rehabilitation) (in the sense ‘restore to former privileges’): from medieval Latin rehabilitat-, from the verb rehabilitare (from re- and habilitate, from medieval Latin habilitat- ‘made able’, from the verb habilitare, from habilitas, from habilis ‘able’)."
}