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Restore   /rɪstˈɔr/   Listen
Restore

verb
(past & past part. restored; pres. part. restoring)
1.
Return to its original or usable and functioning condition.  Synonym: reconstruct.
2.
Return to life; get or give new life or energy.  Synonyms: regenerate, rejuvenate.
3.
Give or bring back.  Synonym: restitute.
4.
Restore by replacing a part or putting together what is torn or broken.  Synonyms: bushel, doctor, fix, furbish up, mend, repair, touch on.  "Repair my shoes please"
5.
Bring back into original existence, use, function, or position.  Synonyms: reestablish, reinstate.  "Reestablish peace in the region" , "Restore the emperor to the throne"



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"Restore" Quotes from Famous Books



... tryst at Perth for June 25, to restore "religion" and expel the Scots in French service. The little garrison surrendered (their opponents are reckoned by Kirkcaldy at 10,000 men), idolatry was again suppressed, and Perth restored to her municipal ...
— John Knox and the Reformation • Andrew Lang

... to infer that the superfluous energy of the nerves is exhausted by the exercise of the body, and that as the abstraction of blood mitigates inflammations, in like manner does the abstraction of nervous irritability restore tranquillity to the system. This of course applies only to a state of high nervous irritation; but exercise is equally beneficial when the constitution is much weakened, by producing throughout the whole frame that energetic action which has been ...
— The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction - Volume 14, No. 392, Saturday, October 3, 1829. • Various

... house in the bleak northern valley, had asked his advice about the repairs of his own mansion. We may be sure that Telford did his work on that occasion carefully and well; for now, when Mr. Pulteney wished to restore the ruins of Shrewsbury Castle as a dwelling-house, he sought out the young mason who had attended to his Scotch property, and asked him to superintend the proposed alterations in his Shropshire castle. Nor was that all: by Mr. Pulteney's influence, Telford was shortly afterwards ...
— Biographies of Working Men • Grant Allen

... Queene my mother, I do hereby promis to pay ye sayde debte of 4150L. to ye sayde Sir William Hamilton his heires and assigns or to satisfie him or them to the valew thereof when it shall please God to restore me to the possession ...
— Notes & Queries, No. 14. Saturday, February 2, 1850 • Various

... his legions, Restore the commonwealth to liberty, Submit his actions to the public censure, And stand the judgment of a Roman senate. Bid him do this, and Cato ...
— Cato - A Tragedy, in Five Acts • Joseph Addison


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