habilitate meaning

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habilitate (verb): qualify for teaching at a university in Europe.

habilitate has 2 meanings in this dictionary.

habilitate as a verb

  1. qualify for teaching at a university in Europe
    • He habilitated after his sabbatical at a prestigious American university

    Type of: qualify

  2. provide with clothes or put clothes on
    • Parents must feed and dress their child

    Synonyms: dress, clothe, enclothe, garb, raiment, tog, garment, fit out, apparel

    Type of: change state

    Kinds: prim, cover, jacket, frock, shirt, habit, vesture, overdress, underdress, corset, shoe, coat

Word lists: words starting with HA · words ending in TE · 10-letter words

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