habilitating

present participle of habilitate

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for habilitating
Verb
  • Community members at the time cried and mourned as their hopes of rehabilitating and reopening the historic structure were reduced to ashes.
    Kyle Martin, Mercury News, 13 Oct. 2025
  • Blackwell and his team got to work rehabilitating the declining species native to Mexico.
    John Leos, AZCentral.com, 26 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Certain redemptions are only worth less than one cent per point, which means the best value is redeeming for travel.
    Evan Zimmer, CNBC, 25 Oct. 2025
  • Although the murderers are often characters with redeeming qualities, Nolan Hurst (David Cross) is more sympathetic than most, and his killing of toy store manager/part-time extortionist Patrick Palmer (Drew Seltzer) is an unpremeditated act of desperation, not the settling of a score.
    Sophie Brookover, Vulture, 17 Oct. 2025
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“Habilitating.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/habilitating. Accessed 29 Oct. 2025.

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