rehabnoun [ U ]
uk/ˈriː.hæb/us/ˈriː.hæb/informalthe process of helping someone to stop taking drugs or alcohol:
She's just finished four months of rehab.
a rehab clinic
After his arrest in 2011, he checked himself into rehab to get over his heroin addiction.
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Recovering from illness
- be on the mend idiom
- bounce
- bounce back
- clear (sth) up
- come round
- convalescence
- convalescent
- correct
- corrective
- feel like a new woman/man idiom
- get over sth/sb
- heal
- hold
- lacunar
- mend
- new
- pull
- rehabilitation
- rose
- throw sth off
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