restore
verb
- return (someone or something) to a former condition
- give back
Wiktionary
Pronunciation: /ɹɪˈstɔː/ / /ɹɪˈstoɹ/ / /ɹɪˈsto(ː)ɹ/
noun
Etymology: From Middle English restoren, from Old French restorer, from Latin rēstaurāre. By surface analysis, re- + store.
- The act of recovering data or a system from a backup.
“We backed up the data successfully, but the restore failed.”
verb
Etymology: From Middle English restoren, from Old French restorer, from Latin rēstaurāre. By surface analysis, re- + store.
- 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.”
- To bring back to good condition from a state of decay or ruin.
“and his hand was restored whole as the other”
“our fortune restored after the severest afflictions”
- To give or bring back (that which has been lost or taken); to bring back to the owner; to replace.
“Now therefore restore the man his wife.”
“Loss of Eden, till one greater man / Restore us, and regain the blissful seat.”
- To give in place of, or as restitution for.
“He shall restore five oxen for an ox, and four sheep for a sheep.”
- To recover (data, etc.) from a backup.
“There was a crash last night, and we're still restoring the file system.”
- To bring (a note) back to its original signification.
- To make good; to make amends for.
“But if the while I think on thee, dear friend, / All losses are restored, and sorrows end.”