rehab

See also: Rehab.

English

Etymology

Clipping of rehabilitation.

Pronunciation

• enPR: rēʹhăb, IPA^(key): /ˈɹiːhæb/

• Audio (CA)

  (file)

Noun

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.'

Derived terms

• gut rehab

Translations

An act of rehabilitation

• Finnish: kuntoutus (fi), kuntouttaminen (fi), vieroitushoito (fi)
• French: désintox (fr) m
• Ido: rehabilito (io)
• Italian: riabilitazione (it), riabilitazioni (it)
• Polish: rehabilitacja (pl) f
• Romanian: reabilitare (ro) f
• Spanish: rehabilitación (es)
• Swedish: rehab c

An institution for rehabilitation

• Finnish: kuntoutusklinikka
• Ido: rehabiliterio
• Italian: centro di riabilitazione
• Spanish: centro de rehabilitación

Verb

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

1. (informal, transitive) To rehabilitate.

Translations

rehabilitate

• Finnish: kuntouttaa
• Ido: rehabilitar (io)
• Italian: riabilitare (it)
• Spanish: rehabilitar (es)

Anagrams

• Baehr, Behar, Haber, hebra

Cebuano

Etymology

From English rehab, clipping of rehabilitation.

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: re‧hab

Noun

rehab

1. a rehab; an institution for rehabilitation

Verb

rehab

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

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:rehab.

Swedish

Noun

rehab c

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

Declension

Declension of rehab
	Uncountable
	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	rehab	rehaben	—	—
Genitive	rehabs	rehabens	—	—

See also

• rehabilitering (“rehabilitation”)

References

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