Synonyms for restore
- bring back
- build up
- improve
- modernize
- rebuild
- reconstruct
- recover
- reestablish
- refurbish
- rehabilitate
- reinforce
- reinstate
- renew
- renovate
- repair
- replace
- rescue
- revitalize
- revive
- strengthen
- cure
- heal
- mend
- reanimate
- recall
- recondition
- reconstitute
- redeem
- refresh
- reimpose
- reintroduce
- rejuvenate
- retouch
- revivify
- update
- make healthy
- make restitution
- reerect
- set to rights
- touch up
- win back
Antonyms for restore
EXAMPLES FROM THE WEB FOR RESTORE
After this, nothing could restore the courtesy he had previously assumed.
Things as trifling as the turning of a shell may restore you to your rights.
You pull down, you despoil; but they build up, they restore.
Restore to the real owner whatever has been dishonestly gotten.
"Ah, you wish me to restore your hope and cheerfulness," said God.
You said, 'It grieved you that I was poor; that you could not restore to me the luxury and wealth I had lost.'
Restore him to those feelings thou art all in all with his highness!
As it pleased Heaven in its mercy to restore him so soon, I should have great hope.
His first step was to restore discipline in the Chapter, which had all gone to wreck.
He rubbed his arms and legs to restore the circulation, and started to leave the building.
WORD ORIGIN
c.1300, "to give back," also, "to build up again, repair," from Old French restorer, from Latin restaurare "repair, rebuild, renew," from re- "back, again" (see re-) + -staurare, as in instaurare "restore," from PIE *stau-ro-, from root *sta- "to stand, set down, make or be firm," with derivatives meaning "place or thing that is standing" (see stet). Related: Restored; restoring.