REHABILITATE in a Sentence

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You want me to go and see her, to ask her here, and to rehabilitate her in society; but do understand that I cannot do so.

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 Meanings and Examples of REHABILITATE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
rehabilitate
 v.  restore to proper condition; help to re-adapt, as to former state of health or good repute
Classic Sentence:
1  I want to rehabilitate myself, Mrs Helmer; I want to get on; and in that your husband must help me.
A Doll's House By Henrik Ibsen
Context  Highlight   In ACT II
2  You want me to go and see her, to ask her here, and to rehabilitate her in society; but do understand that I cannot do so.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 5: Chapter 28
3  Dorset had apparently shown marked interest in the girl, and this interest might be used to cruel advantage in his wife's struggle for rehabilitation.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 3
4  To Northern capital and Afro-American labor the South owes its rehabilitation.
Southern Horrors By Ida B. Wells-Barnett
Context  Highlight   In VII
5  Whereafter the said landowner probably proceeds to spend on his diversion the money which ought to have gone towards the rehabilitation of his affairs.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER XI
6  From the rehabilitation of his father, he naturally passed to the rehabilitation of Napoleon.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VI—THE CONSEQUENCES OF HAVING MET A WARDEN
7  His hat, which had been rehabilitated by his wife, rested upon his knees.
Dubliners By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In GRACE
8  Madeleine, had regained his status and rehabilitated himself.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 9: CHAPTER IV—A BOTTLE OF INK WHICH ONLY SUCCEEDED IN WHITEN...
Example Sentence:
1  The Prime Minister seems to be trying to rehabilitate the former defence secretary.
2  The prison service should try to rehabilitate prisoners so that they can lead normal lives when they leave prison.
3  We will plan to rehabilitate the run - down neighborhood.
4  We must rehabilitate those whom we send to prison.
5  Prison reformers in the United States are disturbed by the high rate of recidivism; the number of men serving second and third terms in prison indicates the failure of prisons to rehabilitate the inmates.
6  They are beginning the assessment of the overall need for reconstruction and rehabilitation.
7  Doctors have told him his long-term prognosis is good, but rehabilitation and training is necessary.
8  He was set free and rehabilitated as chief engineer.