Antonyms for rehabilitate
ˌri həˈbɪl ɪˌteɪt, ˌri ə-re·ha·bil·i·tate

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:4.5 / 2 votes

1. rehabilitate

   Antonyms:
   denude, divest, disempower, incapacitate, disqualify, strip, deprive

   Synonyms:
   reinstate, reempower, recapacitate, requalify

Matched Categories

1. • Reinstate
   • Restore

Princeton's WordNetRate these antonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. rehabilitateverb

   help to readapt, as to a former state of health or good repute

   "The prisoner was successfully rehabilitated"; "After a year in the mental clinic, the patient is now rehabilitated"

   Antonyms:
   purge

2. rehabilitateverb

   reinstall politically

   "Deng Xiao Ping was rehabilitated several times throughout his lifetime"

   Antonyms:
   purge

3. rehabilitateverb

   restore to a state of good condition or operation

   Antonyms:
   purge

How to use rehabilitate in a sentence?

1. Jeff Rusnak:

   Biden's roots and history and commitment with those voters, with the blue-collar voters, will help him here. As long as he's not wounded coming out of Super Tuesday, then he could potentially get his bounce back and in some ways rehabilitate his campaign, there is an opportunity for Super Tuesday here. Whether he has the money or not to do that, that's the challenge. Right now, there is no media, no ground game being waged by them. The Bernie Sanders folks are everywhere ; The Bernie folks do have a ground game.

2. Donald Wuebbles:

   Its just not going to happen, its so much cheaper to rehabilitate existing facilities than it is to totally close everything off.

3. The Thai leader:

   The most important thing is to identify who the victims are -- and where they come from. If they come from another country we will repatriate them. But we first have to rehabilitate them until they are strong.

4. Rajdoot Rupwate:

   The number of street children has reduced over the years, but there is still a problem, especially with children begging and working, we try to rehabilitate the children and in the case of those who are trafficked, we try and repatriate them with NGOs.

5. President Bill Clinton on Wednesday:

   I mean, going from conservative Republicans to liberal Democrats and the people in between saying there's too many people in jail and we're not doing enough to rehabilitate the ones you could rehabilitate, we're wasting too much money locking people up who don't need to be there.

How to pronounce rehabilitate?

How to say rehabilitate in sign language?

Words popularity by usage frequency