Definition of "restore"

restore

/ɹɪˈstɔɹ/

verb
third-person singular simple present restores, present participle restoring, simple past and past participle restored
1. (transitive) To reestablish, or bring back into existence.
2. (transitive) To bring back to good condition from a state of decay or ruin.
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  and his hand was restored whole as the other
  1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], Mark iii:5
  our fortune restored after the severest afflictions
  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 […], (please specify the page)
3. (transitive) To give or bring back (that which has been lost or taken); to bring back to the owner; to replace.
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  Now therefore restore the man his wife.
  1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], Genesis xx:7
  Loss of Eden, till one greater man / Restore us, and regain the blissful seat.
  1667, John Milton, “Book I”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], […]; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873,
  The father banish;d virtue shall restore.
  1697, Virgil, “Tityrus and Meliboeus”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […]
4. (transitive) To give in place of, or as restitution for.
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  He shall restore five oxen for an ox, and four sheep for a sheep.
  1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], Exodus xxii:1
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.
  Quotations
  But if the while I think on thee, dear friend, / All losses are restored, and sorrows end.
  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
noun
plural restores
1. (computing) The act of recovering data or a system from a backup.

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