restore

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• transitive verb To bring back into existence or use; reestablish.
• transitive verb To bring back to an original or normal condition.
• transitive verb To place in a former position or location.
• transitive verb To put (someone) back in a former position or role.
• transitive verb To make restitution of; give back.

from The Century Dictionary.

• To bring back to a former and better state.
• To bring back from lapse, degeneracy, or a fallen condition to a former state.
• To bring back to a state of health or soundness; heal; cure.
• In the fine arts:
• To bring back from a state of injury or decay as nearly as may be to the primitive state, supplying any part that may be wanting, by a careful following of the original work: as, to restore a painting, a statue, etc.
• To form a picture or model of, as of something lost or mutilated: as, to restore a ruined building according to its original state or design.
• To bring back; renew or reëstablish after interruption.
• To give or bring back; return to a person, as a specific thing which he has lost, or which has been taken from him and unjustly retained: as, to restore lost or stolen goods to the owner.
• To give in place of or as satisfaction for something; hence, to make amends for; compensate.
• To bring or put back to a former position or condition; replace; return, as a person or thing to a former place.
• To recover or renew, as passages of an author defective or corrupted; emend.
• In paleontology, to represent (an extinct animal) from its existing remains. See restoration, 8.
• In musical notation, to bring (a degree or note) back to its original signification by canceling a chromatic sign which had affected it temporarily.
• To store.
• Synonyms . To recover.
• 3 and To refund, repay.
• To reinstate. Return, Restore. To return a thing to its former place; to restore it to its former condition; to return what has been borrowed; to restore what has been stolen; to be restored to health or prosperity.
• noun Restoration; restitution.
• To store again or anew: as, the goods were restored.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• transitive verb 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.
• transitive verb To give or bring back, as that which has been lost., or taken away; to bring back to the owner; to replace.
• transitive verb To renew; to reëstablish.
• transitive verb To give in place of, or as satisfaction for.
• transitive verb To make good; to make amends for.
• transitive verb To bring back from a state of injury or decay, or from a changed condition; , statue, etc.
• transitive verb To form a picture or model of, as of something lost or mutilated.
• noun obsolete Restoration.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• noun computing The act of recovering data or a system from a backup.
• verb transitive To reestablish, or bring back into existence.
• verb transitive To bring back to a previous condition or state.
• verb transitive To give back, or make restitution.
• verb computing To recover data from a backup.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

• verb restore by replacing a part or putting together what is torn or broken
• verb return to life; get or give new life or energy
• verb return to its original or usable and functioning condition
• verb give or bring back
• verb bring back into original existence, use, function, or position