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Rehabilitate vs Betterment - What's the difference?

rehabilitate | betterment |

As a verb rehabilitate

is to restore (someone) to their former state, reputation, possessions, status etc.

As a noun betterment is

an improvement.

rehabilitate

English

Verb

(rehabilitat)
  • To restore (someone) to their former state, reputation, possessions, status etc.
  • To vindicate; to restore the reputation or image of (a person, concept etc.).
  • To return (something) to its original condition.
  • (North America) To restore or repair (a vehicle, building); to make habitable or usable again.
  • To restore to (a criminal etc.) the necessary training and education to allow for a successful reintegration into society; to retrain.
  • To return (someone) to good health after illness, addiction etc.
  • To go through such a process; to recover.

    • Quotations

    * I turned over the piece of paper, and there, there on the other side, in the middle of the other side, away from everything else on the other side, in parenthesis, capital letters, quotated, read the following words: :: (“KID, HAVE YOU REHABILITATED YOURSELF?”) : —, 1967 * Attempts to rehabilitate liberals on this point are futile. It's in their DNA. *: 2006

    Derived terms

    * rehab * rehabilitation * rehabilitative

    betterment

    English

    (wikipedia betterment)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An improvement.
  • (legal) An improvement to a property that adds to its value.