Meaning

(transitive) To reestablish, or bring back into existence..

Definitions by Sense

1. (transitive) To reestablish, or bring back into existence.
2. (transitive) To bring back to good condition from a state of decay or ruin.
3. (transitive) To give or bring back (that which has been lost or taken); to bring back to the owner; to replace.
4. (transitive) To give in place of, or as restitution for.
5. (transitive, computing) To recover (data, etc.) from a backup.
6. (transitive, music) To bring (a note) back to its original signification.
7. (obsolete) To make good; to make amends for.
8. (computing) The act of recovering data or a system from a backup.

Example Sentences

to restore harmony among those who are at variance

He restored my lost faith in him by doing a good deed.

and his hand was restored whole as the other

our fortune restored after the severest afflictions

Now therefore restore the man his wife.

Loss of Eden, till one greater man / Restore us, and regain the blissful seat.

The father banish;d virtue shall restore.

The plain appears like paradiſe reſtored, where the proud cypreſs and tall arreca ſeem walking by the margin of the paſſing ſtream.

Word Forms

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