What does restitute mean?
Restitute means (transitive) To restore (something) to its former condition..
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/ˈɹɛstɪtjuːt/ · verb
(transitive) To restore (something) to its former condition..
[…] when Frederick M. (Bantam) Lyons had rapidly and successively requested, perused and restituted the copy of the current issue of the Freeman's Journal and National Press which he had been about to throw away (subsequently thrown away), he had proceeded towards the oriental edifice of the Turkish and Warm Baths.[…]
What I spill in talk or acts rarely is restituted in writing.
[W]hat it represents is the inability of language to restitute the loss of memory.
We were even ordered to restitute the legal costs of the defendants.
Use restitute when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Restitute means (transitive) To restore (something) to its former condition..
Common synonyms include restore, roll back, deconvert, reconvert.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
[…] when Frederick M. (Bantam) Lyons had rapidly and successively requested, perused and restituted the copy of the current issue of the Freeman's Journal and National Press which he had been about to throw away (subsequently thrown away), he had proceeded towards the oriental edifice of the Turkish and Warm Baths.[…]
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