restoreverb [ T ]
uk/rɪˈstɔːr/us/rɪˈstɔːr/B2 to return something or someone to an earlier good condition or position:
The badly neglected paintings have all been carefully restored.
After a week in bed, she was fully restored to health (= she felt healthy again).
The former leader was today restored to power in the first free elections for 20 years.
C1 If you restore a quality or ability that someone has not had for a long time, you make it possible for them to have that quality or ability again:
Doctors have restored his sight.
The government is trying to restore public confidence in its management of the economy.
to bring back into use something that has been absent for a period of time:
Some people are in favour of restoring capital punishment for murderers.
formal to give something that has been lost or stolen back to the person it belongs to:
The painting was restored to its rightful owner.
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- They want to restore the castle to its former glory.
- They're trying to restore the good name of the manufacturer.
- The church was recently restored after decades of disuse.
- The table had been lovingly restored.
- Ben's hobby is restoring vintage motorcycles.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Restoring and reviving
- ball
- bounce
- lick your wounds idiom
- modernize
- move
- move with the times idiom
- pick
- pick up/take the ball and run with it idiom
- rejuvenate
- rekindle
- renaissance
- restoration
- restorer
- revival
- revive
- revivify
- rise
- rise from the dead/grave idiom
- salvage
- snap
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Giving, bringing or getting back