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restore
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)
- (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.
- 1718, Matthew Prior, Solomon on the Vanity of the World
- our fortune restored after the severest afflictions
- 1718, Matthew Prior, Solomon on the Vanity of the World
- (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.
- (transitive) To give in place of, or as restitution for.
- (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 XXX
- But if the while I think on thee, dear friend, / All losses are restored, and sorrows end.
- 1609, William Shakespeare, Sonnet XXX
Synonyms
- See also Thesaurus:repair
Translations
Noun
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.
Related terms
- restoration
- restorer
Anagrams
- retroes, retrose, tresero
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unbreak
English
Alternative forms
- un-break
Etymology
From un- +? break, popularised in songs sung by The Alarm (Unbreak the Promise) and Toni Braxton (Unbreak My Heart).
Verb
unbreak (third-person singular simple present unbreaks, present participle unbreaking, simple past unbroke, past participle unbroken)
- (transitive) To do the inverse of breaking: to mend, restore, heal or fix.
Anagrams
- Burkean, Urbanek, unbrake
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