rehab

English Online Dictionary. What means rehab‎? What does rehab mean?

English

Etymology

Clipping of rehabilitation.

Pronunciation

• enPR: rēʹhăb, IPA^(key): /ˈɹiːhæb/

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

Derived terms

• gut rehab
• rehab broker

Translations

Verb

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

1. (informal, transitive) To rehabilitate.

Translations

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.
   • 2018 — Baron Geisler Balik-Rehab (24 March), SuperBalita

Swedish

Noun

rehab c

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

Declension

See also

• rehabilitering (“rehabilitation”)

References

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