restore
Listen:Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
restore/rɪˈstɔː(r)/
▶verb
- 1 bring back (a previous right, practice, or situation); reinstate.
■ return to a former condition or position.
- 2 repair or renovate.
- 3 give (something stolen or removed) back to the original owner.
– derivatives
restorable adjective,
restorer noun.
restorable adjective,
restorer noun.
– origin ME: from OFr. restorer, from L. restaurare ‘rebuild, restore’.
'restore' also found in these Oxford entries:
breath
- bring
- chafe
- descramble
- fix
- Mahdi
- mend
- otoplasty
- patch
- pull
- quicken
- re-
- reactivate
- realign
- reanimate
- rebalance
- reconcile
- reconstitute
- redintegrate
- redress
- reduce
- reform
- rehabilitate
- reinstate
- reintegrate
- rejuvenate
- remineralize
- remit
- remonetize
- renew
- renovate
- repair
- replenish
- restaurant
- restitution
- restorationism
- restorative
- resurrect
- retexture
- reunify
- revive
- right
- set
- store
- stuff
- Tractarianism
- unscramble
