restored

5 definitions • 7 examples

past simple and past participle of

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.

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.

to give something that has been lost or stolen back to the person it belongs to:

The painting was restored to its rightful owner.