different between restore vs recure

English

Etymology

From Middle English restoren, from Old French restorer, from Latin r?staur?re.

Pronunciation

• (General American) enPR: r?stôr?, IPA^(key): /???st??/
• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: r?stô?, IPA^(key): /???st??/
• (rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) enPR: r?st?r?, IPA^(key): /???sto(?)?/
• (non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA^(key): /???sto?/
• Rhymes: -??(?)
• Hyphenation: re?store

Verb

restore (third-person singular simple present restores, present participle restoring, simple past and past participle restored)

1. (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.

2. (transitive) To bring back to good condition from a state of decay or ruin.
   • 1718, Matthew Prior, Solomon on the Vanity of the World

     our fortune restored after the severest afflictions

3. (transitive) To give or bring back (that which has been lost or taken); to bring back to the owner; to replace.
   • The father banish;d virtue shall restore.

4. (transitive) To give in place of, or as restitution for.
5. (transitive, computing) To recover (data, etc.) from a backup.

   There was a crash last night, and we're still restoring the file system.

6. (transitive, music) To bring (a note) back to its original signification.
7. (obsolete) To make good; to make amends for.
   • 1609, William Shakespeare, Sonnet XXX

     But if the while I think on thee, dear friend, / All losses are restored, and sorrows end.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:repair

Translations

Noun

restore (plural restores)

1. (computing) The act of recovering data or a system from a backup.

   We backed up the data successfully, but the restore failed.

Related terms

• restoration
• restorer

Anagrams

• retroes, retrose, tresero

English

Etymology

Probably partly from Latin rec?r?re, and partly from a reduced form of recover.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???kj??(?)/
• Rhymes: -??(?)

Verb

recure (third-person singular simple present recures, present participle recuring, simple past and past participle recured)

1. (obsolete) To cure, heal.
   • c. 1513, John Lydgate, Troy Book

     Be eschaunge of hym ye myghte best recure
     Withoute strif youre owne man ageyn

2. (obsolete) To restore (something) to a good condition.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, I.v:

     Phoebus pure / In westerne waues his wearie wagon did recure.

3. (obsolete) To recover, regain (something that had been lost).
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.5:

     By this he had sweet life recur'd agayne […]

4. To arrive at; to reach; to attain.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Lydgate to this entry?)

Noun

recure (uncountable)

1. (obsolete) cure; remedy; recovery

   • But whom he hite, without recure he dies.