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Rehabilitate

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.

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Reconstruct 76% connected

To construct again; to rebuild; to remodel; to form again or anew.

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Reinstate 76% connected

To place again in possession, or in a former state; to restore to a state from which one had been removed; to instate again; as, to reinstate a king…

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Restore 76% connected

To bring back to its former state; to bring back from a state of ruin, decay, disease, or the like; to repair; to renew; to recover.

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Rehabilitation 74% connected

The act of rehabilitating, or the state of being rehabilitated.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Rehabilitation 74% connected

The act of rehabilitating, or the state of being rehabilitated.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Renewal 74% connected

The act of renewing, or the state of being renewed; as, the renewal of a treaty.

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Renewal 74% connected

The act of renewing, or the state of being renewed; as, the renewal of a treaty.

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Purge 94% connected

To cleanse, clear, or purify by separating and carrying off whatever is impure, heterogeneous, foreign, or superfluous.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Purge 94% connected

To cleanse, clear, or purify by separating and carrying off whatever is impure, heterogeneous, foreign, or superfluous.

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