restoration
Other forms: restorations
A restoration is when you bring something back to what it was. A crumbling house that is lovingly-rebuilt in its original style, a king who was kicked off his throne only to get it back — these are restorations.
Notice the difference between renovation and restoration. If you restore a 1950s house, you use period materials and effects. A renovation might include new things. Restoration always means a putting back: if you've been ill, but get better, you might talk about your restoration of health.
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the act of restoring something or someone to a satisfactory statetypes:re-establishmentrestoration to a previous stategentrificationa process in which middle-class and wealthy people move into and lower income areas and rebuild or improve properties (resulting in the displacement of low-income residents)reclamation, rehabilitation, renewalthe conversion of wasteland into land suitable for use of habitation or cultivationrehabilitationthe restoration of someone to a useful place in societyreinstatementthe act of restoring someone to a previous positionrejuvenationthe act of restoring to a more youthful conditionre-afforestation, reforestationthe restoration (replanting) of a forest that had been reduced by fire or cuttingcorrectional rehabilitationproviding penal custody or probation or parole for convicted offendersphysical rehabilitation, physical restoration, therapeutic rehabilitationproviding help for disabled persons; the removal or reduction of disabilitiesurban renewalthe clearing and rebuilding and redevelopment of urban slumsvocational rehabilitationproviding training in a specific trade with the aim of gaining employmentrecreation, refreshmentactivity that refreshes and recreates; activity that renews your health and spirits by enjoyment and relaxation
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the state of being restored to its former good conditionsynonyms: refurbishment, renovation
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some artifact that has been restored or reconstructed
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a model that represents the landscape of a former geological age or that represents and extinct animal etc.
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getting something back againsynonyms: regaining, restitution, returntypes:clawbackfinding a way to take money back from people that they were given in another waytype of:acquisitionthe act of contracting or assuming or acquiring possession of something
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Learn these words that begin with the prefix re-, meaning "again" or "back."
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