REHABBING Synonyms: 47 Similar and Opposite Words

rehabbing

verb

present participle of rehab

as in rehabilitating

to restore to a healthy condition rehabbing the torture victim's battered body will be easier than restoring his emotional well-being

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Gross-Matos is currently rehabilitating from that knee injury and isn’t ready to play.

— Matt Barrows, New York Times, 15 Sep. 2026
Veterans groups and advocates who shaped the 2016 draft plan contend the housing was tacked on to allow the VA to avoid the cost of rehabilitating the building.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 11 Sep. 2026

Definition of rehabilitating

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Kris, Kourtney, Kim, Khloé, Kendall, and Kylie balance empire-building with something far more personal, from unexpected sparks and new relationships, to healing old wounds and embracing independence.

— Denise Petski, Deadline, 17 Sep. 2026
Unselfed love reverses the world’s sway that would turn us away from the always-available guiding, loving, and healing messages of the eternal Christ that lead us to do good deeds to benefit humanity, individually or collectively.

— The Christian Science Monitor, Christian Science Monitor, 14 Sep. 2026

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Empa's earlier experiments showed that formulations with sufficiently high phosphorus content could be reprocessed after curing, with the dynamic network rearranging through transesterification reactions.

— New Atlas, New Atlas, 6 Sep. 2026
The whole system runs on curing the harvest each fall and drawing it down slowly, month after month, until the next crop starts arriving around October.

— Phil Lempert, Forbes.com, 23 Aug. 2026

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Whatever cartel-like behavior does emerge will probably look less like coordinated price-fixing and more like the airline industry, which competes on reliability and bundled extras as the underlying product commoditizes.

— Liz Hoffman, semafor.com, 17 Sep. 2026
Parents and state lawmakers gather at noon Thursday at City Hall to push for legislation aimed at fixing how the city handles its school bus contracts.

— Elijah Westbrook, CBS News, 17 Sep. 2026

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