rehabilitate

Other forms of rehabilitate

past tense

rehabilitated·

present participle

rehabilitating·

third person

rehabilitates·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about rehabilitate

What does rehabilitate mean?

rehabilitate means "help to readapt, as to a former state of health or good repute". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in rehabilitate?

rehabilitate has 5 syllables: re-ha-bil-i-tate. The stress falls on "bil". In IPA it is /ˌɹihəˈbɪləˌteɪt/.

What is the opposite of rehabilitate?

The recorded antonyms are purge.

Is rehabilitate a common word?

rehabilitate is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with rehabilitate?

29 words rhyme with rehabilitate. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.