rehabilitate

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
rehabilitate/riːəˈbɪlɪteɪt/

▶verb

• 1 restore to health or normal life by training and therapy after imprisonment, addiction, or illness.

• 2 restore the standing or reputation of.

• 3 restore to a former condition.

– derivatives
rehabilitation noun,
rehabilitative adjective.

– origin C16 (earlier (C15) as rehabilitation): from med. L. rehabilitat-, rehabilitare (see re-, habilitate).