# restore
## English
### Etymology

From Middle English restoren, from Old French restorer, from Latin rēstaurāre, equivalent to re- +‎ store.

### Pronunciation

* (General American) enPR: rĭstôrʹ, IPA: /ɹɪˈstoɹ/
* (Received Pronunciation) enPR: rĭstôʹ, IPA: /ɹɪˈstɔː/
* (rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) enPR: rĭstōrʹ, IPA: /ɹɪˈsto(ː)ɹ/
* (non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA: /ɹɪˈstoə/
* Audio (US):(file)
* Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)
* Hyphenation: re‧store

### Verb

restore (third-person singular simple present restores, present participle restoring, simple past and past participle restored)
* (transitive) To reestablish, or bring back into existence.
    to restore harmony among those who are at variance
    He restored my lost faith in him by doing a good deed.
* (transitive) To bring back to good condition from a state of decay or ruin.
** 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Mark iii:5:and his hand was restored whole as the other
** 1718, Mat[thew] Prior, “Solomon on the Vanity of the World. A Poem in Three Books.”, in Poems on Several Occasions, London: […] Jacob Tonson […], and John Barber […], →OCLC, (please specify the page):our fortune restored after the severest afflictions
* (transitive) To give or bring back (that which has been lost or taken); to bring back to the owner; to replace.
** 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Genesis xx:7:Now therefore restore the man his wife.
** 1667, John Milton, “Book I”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:Loss of Eden, till one greater man / Restore us, and regain the blissful seat.
** 1697, Virgil, “Tityrus and Meliboeus”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:The father banish;d virtue shall restore.
** 1769, Firishta, translated by Alexander Dow, Tales translated from the Persian of Inatulla of Delhi, volume I, Dublin: P. and W. Wilson et al., page iv:The plain appears like paradiſe reſtored, where the proud cypreſs and tall arreca ſeem walking by the margin of the paſſing ſtream.
* (transitive) To give in place of, or as restitution for.
** 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Exodus xxii:1:He shall restore five oxen for an ox, and four sheep for a sheep.
* (transitive, computing) To recover (data, etc.) from a backup.
    There was a crash last night, and we're still restoring the file system.
* (transitive, music) To bring (a note) back to its original signification.
* (obsolete) To make good; to make amends for.
** 1609, William Shakespeare, “Sonnet 30”, in Shake-speares Sonnets. […], London: By G[eorge] Eld for T[homas] T[horpe] and are to be sold by William Aspley, →OCLC:But if the while I think on thee, dear friend, / All losses are restored, and sorrows end.

#### Synonyms

* See also Thesaurus:repair

#### Translations

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### Noun

restore (plural restores)
* (computing) The act of recovering data or a system from a backup.
    We backed up the data successfully, but the restore failed.

#### Related terms

* restoration
* restorative
* restorer

### Anagrams

* retroes, retrose, tresero