restore
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: rĭstôʹ
ipa: /ɹɪˈstɔː/
enpr: rĭstôrʹ
ipa: /ɹɪˈstoɹ/
note: rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
enpr: rĭstōrʹ
ipa: /ɹɪˈsto(ː)ɹ/
note: rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
note: non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
ipa: /ɹɪˈstoə/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)
Forms: form: restores
form: restoring
form: restored
form: restored
form: no-table-tags
form: glossary
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form: restorest
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form: restoreth
form: restored
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form: -
form: restoring
form: restored
Etymology: From Middle English restoren, from Old French restorer, from Latin rēstaurāre, equivalent to re- + store.
Senses: examples: text: to restore harmony among those who are at variance
text: He restored my lost faith in him by doing a good deed.
glosses: To reestablish, or bring back into existence.
examples: text: and his hand was restored whole as the other
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Mark iii:5:
text: our fortune restored after the severest afflictions
ref: 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):
glosses: To bring back to good condition from a state of decay or ruin.
examples: text: Now therefore restore the man his wife.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Genesis xx:7:
text: Loss of Eden, till one greater man / Restore us, and regain the blissful seat.
ref: 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:
text: The father banish;d virtue shall restore.
ref: 1697, Virgil, “Tityrus and Meliboeus”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:
text: The plain appears like paradiſe reſtored, where the proud cypreſs and tall arreca ſeem walking by the margin of the paſſing ſtream.
ref: 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:
glosses: To give or bring back (that which has been lost or taken); to bring back to the owner; to replace.
examples: text: He shall restore five oxen for an ox, and four sheep for a sheep.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Exodus xxii:1:
glosses: To give in place of, or as restitution for.
examples: text: There was a crash last night, and we're still restoring the file system.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: To recover (data, etc.) from a backup.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: To bring (a note) back to its original signification.
examples: text: But if the while I think on thee, dear friend, / All losses are restored, and sorrows end.
ref: 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:
glosses: To make good; to make amends for.