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rehabilitation
CIDE DICTIONARY
rehabilitation, n. [Cf. LL. rehabilitatio, F. Réhabilitation.].
The act of rehabilitating, or the state of being rehabilitated. Bouvier. Walsh. [1913 Webster]
THESAURUS
rehabilitation
about-face, adjustive reaction, adjustment, backing, backsliding, clearance, clearing, destigmatization, destigmatizing, disenchantment, exculpation, explanation, flip-flop, fulfillment, improvement, instauration, integrated personality, justification, lapse, psychosynthesis, purgation, purging, rationalization, reactivation, readjustment, recidivation, recidivism, reclamation, reconditioning, reconstitution, reconversion, redintegration, reeducation, reenactment, reestablishment, reformation, regress, regression, reinstatement, reinstation, reinstitution, reinstruction, reinvestiture, reinvestment, relapse, repatriation, replacement, restitution, restoration, retrocession, retrogradation, retrogression, retroversion, return, returning, reversal, reverse, reversion, reverting, revulsion, slipping back, syntonic personality, turn, turnabout, vindicationROGET THESAURUS
rehabilitation
Restoration
N restoration, restoral, reinstatement, replacement, rehabilitation, reestablishment, reconstitution, reconstruction, reproduction, renovation, renewal, revival, revivessence, reviviscence, refreshment, resuscitation, reanimation, revivification, reviction, Phenix, reorganization, renaissance, second youth, rejuvenescence, new birth, regeneration, regeneracy, regenerateness, palingenesis, reconversion, redress, retrieval, reclamation, recovery, convalescence, resumption, resumption, sanativeness, recurrence, rechauffe, rifacimento, cure, recure, sanation, healing, redintegration, rectification, instauration, repair, reparation, remanufacture, recruiting, cicatrization, disinfection, tinkering, reaction, redemption, restitution, relief, tinker, cobbler, vis medicatrix, curableness, restored, redivivus, convalescent, in a fair way, none the worse, rejuvenated, restoring, restorative, recuperative, sanative, reparative, sanatory, reparatory, curative, remedial, restorable, recoverable, sanable, remediable, retrievable, curable, in statu quo, as you were, phr, revenons a nos moutons, medecin, gueris-toi toi- meme, vestigia nulla retrorsum.Restitution
N restitution, return, rendition, reddition, restoration, reinvestment, recuperation, rehabilitation, reparation, atonement, compensation, indemnification, release, replevin, redemption, recovery, remitter, reversion, restoring, recuperative, suum cuique.For further exploring for "rehabilitation" in Webster Dictionary Online