rehabilitate

transitive verb

To restore to good health or useful life, as through therapy and education.

transitive verb

To restore to good condition.

transitive verb

To cause to be regarded again in a positive way; reestablish esteem for.

transitive verb

To restore the former rank, privileges, or rights of.

To restore to a former capacity or standing; reinstate; qualify again; restore, as a delinquent, to a former right, rank, or privilege lost or forfeited: a term drawn from the civil and canon law.

To reëstablish in the esteem of others or in social position lost by disgrace; restore to public respect: as, there is now a tendency to rehabilitate notorious historical personages; Lady Blank was rehabilitated by the influence of her family at court.

transitive verb

To invest or clothe again with some right, authority, or dignity; to restore to a former capacity; to reinstate; to qualify again; to restore, as a delinquent, to a former right, rank, or privilege lost or forfeited; — a term of civil and canon law.

verb

restore to a state of good condition or operation

verb

reinstall politically

verb

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