rehabilitate
/ˌriːhəˈbɪlɪteɪt/verb
with obj.
1- restore (someone) to health or normal life by training and therapy after imprisonment, addiction, or illness（监禁、戒毒或病后通过培训和治疗）使康复; 使恢复正常生活：
helping to rehabilitate former criminals.
帮助前罪犯恢复正常生活。
1.1
- restore (someone) to former privileges or reputation after a period of critical or official disfavour恢复…的权利; 恢复…的名誉, 为…平反：
with the fall of the government many former dissidents were rehabilitated.
随着政府的垮台, 许多以前的持不同政见者平反了。
1.2
- return (something, especially an environmental feature) to its former condition恢复…的原状（尤指环境特征）。
派生词
rehabilitation
nounrehabilitative
adjective词源
late 16th cent. （in the sense 'restore to former privileges'）： from medieval Latin rehabilitat-, from the verb rehabilitare （see RE-, HABILITATE）.