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[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle English restoren, from Old French restorer, from Latin rēstaurāre, equivalent to re- + store.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (General American) enPR: rĭstôrʹ, IPA(key): /ɹɪˈstɔɹ/
- (Received Pronunciation) enPR: rĭstôʹ, IPA(key): /ɹɪˈstɔː/
- (rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) enPR: rĭstōrʹ, IPA(key): /ɹɪˈsto(ː)ɹ/
- (non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA(key): /ɹɪˈstoə/
Audio (US): (file) - Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)
- Hyphenation: re‧store
Verb
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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
[edit]- See also Thesaurus:repair
Translations
[edit]to reestablish, or bring back into existence
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to bring back to a previous condition or state
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to give back, or make restitution
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Noun
[edit]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.
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