Word Meanings - RESTORE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To bring back to its former state; to bring back from a state of ruin, decay, disease, or the like; to repair; to renew; to recover. "To restore and to build Jerusalem." Dan. ix. 25. Our fortune restored after the severest afflictions. Prior. And

Additional info about word: RESTORE

To bring back to its former state; to bring back from a state of ruin, decay, disease, or the like; to repair; to renew; to recover. "To restore and to build Jerusalem." Dan. ix. 25. Our fortune restored after the severest afflictions. Prior. And his hand was restored whole as the other. Mark iii. 5. 2. To give or bring back, as that which has been lost., or taken away; to bring back to the owner; to replace. Now therefore restore the man his wife. Gen. xx. 7. Loss of Eden, till one greater man Restore us, and regain the blissful seat. Milton. The father banished virtue shall restore. Dryden. 3. To renew; to reëstablish; as, to restore harmony among those who are variance. 4. To give in place of, or as satisfaction for. He shall restore five oxen for an ox, and four sheep for a sheep. Ex. xxii. 1. 5. To make good; to make amends for. But if the while I think on thee, dear friend, All losses are restored, and sorrows end. Shak. To bring back from a state of injury or decay, or from a changed condition; as, to restore a painting, statue, etc. To form a picture or model of, as of something lost or mutilated; as, to restore a ruined building, city, or the like. Syn. -- To return; replace; refund; repay; reinstate; rebuild; reëstablish; renew; repair; revive; recover; heal; cure. (more info) fr. L. restaurare; pref. re- re- + an unused word; cf. Gr. sth fixed,

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of RESTORE)

• Heal
• Cure
• repair
• restore
• remedy
• assuage
• cicatrize
• reconcile
• Mend
• Repair
• correct
• promote
• improve
• rectify
• reform
• amend
• ameliorate
• better
• Reassure
• Rally
• encourage
• inspirit
• animate
• countenance
• Recal
• Restore
• reassemble
• revoke
• supersede
• recollect
• callback
• remember
• cancel
• Reclaim
• Reform
• recal
• recover
• regain
• rescue
• convert

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of RESTORE)

• Spare
• falsify
• corrupt
• Oppose
• confront
• discourage
• discountenance
• browbeat
• Compliment
• flatter
• panegyrize
• eulogize
• endanger
• imperil
• betray
• surrender
• abandon
• expose

Related words: (words related to RESTORE)

• AMENDFUL
  Much improving.
• FLATTER
  1. One who, or that which, makes flat or flattens. A flat-faced fulling hammer. A drawplate with a narrow, rectangular orifice, for drawing flat strips, as watch springs, etc.
• REFORMALIZE
  To affect reformation; to pretend to correctness.
• RECLAIMABLE
  That may be reclaimed.
• REFORMATIVE
  Forming again; having the quality of renewing form; reformatory. Good.
• RECOVER
  To cover again. Sir W. Scott.
• REVOKER
  One who revokes.
• CONFRONT
  1. To stand facing or in front of; to face; esp. to face hostilely; to oppose with firmness. We four, indeed, confronted were with four In Russian habit. Shak. He spoke and then confronts the bull. Dryden. Hester caught hold of Pearl, and drew
• CONVERTIBILITY
  The condition or quality of being convertible; capability of being exchanged; convertibleness. The mutual convertibility of land into money, and of money into land. Burke.
• CORRECTLY
  In a correct manner; exactly; acurately; without fault or error.
• EXPOSER
  One who exposes or discloses.
• CORRUPTIONIST
  One who corrupts, or who upholds corruption. Sydney Smith.
• CORRUPTIBLE
  1. Capable of being made corrupt; subject to decay. "Our corruptible bodies." Hooker. Ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold. 1 Pet. i. 18. 2. Capable of being corrupted, or morally vitiated; susceptible of depravation.
• RECLAIMER
  One who reclaims.
• ENCOURAGER
  One who encourages, incites, or helps forward; a favorer. The pope is . . . a great encourager of arts. Addison.
• CONFRONTATION
  Act of confronting. H. Swinburne.
• RESCUER
  One who rescues.
• CANCELLATE
  Consisting of a network of veins, without intermediate parenchyma, as the leaves of certain plant; latticelike.
• CORRECTORY
  Containing or making correction; corrective.
• IMPROVER
  One who, or that which, improves.
• PREFORM
  To form beforehand, or for special ends. "Their natures and preformed faculties. " Shak.
• MISREMEMBER
  To mistake in remembering; not to remember correctly. Sir T. More.
• SUTURALLY
  In a sutural manner.
• BEFLATTER
  To flatter excessively.
• TRANSPARENT
  transparere to be transparent; L. trans across, through + parere to 1. Having the property of transmitting rays of light, so that bodies can be distinctly seen through; pervious to light; diaphanous; pellucid; as, transparent glass; a transparent
• CENTRALLY
  In a central manner or situation.
• INCONVERTED
  Not turned or changed about. Sir T. Browne.