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Definition of restore : 1. Restoration.
2. To bring back from a state of injury or decay, or from a changed condition; as, to restore a painting, statue, etc.
3. 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.
4. To form a picture or model of, as of something lost or mutilated; as, to restore a ruined building, city, or the like.
5. To give in place of, or as satisfaction for.
6. To give or bring back, as that which has been lost., or taken away; to bring back to the owner; to replace.
7. To make good; to make amends for.
8. To renew; to reestablish; as, to restore harmony among those who are variance.

Synonyms:

make, specify, animate, pertain, bedside manner, rectify, present, recruit, situate, recompense, amendment, confine, reconstruct, reintroduce, sterilise, commit, clear out, furbish up, reanimate, deposit, bring in, decriminalize, recreate, define, quicken, retrieve, convert, abolish, unsex, be restored, resume, increase, construct, alter, reclaim, touch on, arouse, bear on, have-to doe with, diagnose, sterilize, contribute, restitute, bring around, turn into, distribute, make into, criminalize, reactivate, backdate, remodel, examine, live, clean up, clean out, repossess, set up, pay back, change, ignite, fasten, vary, prepare, bushel, straighten up, rebuild, part with, jump-start, revise, remediate, relate, revivify, replace, amend, caseload, pay off, certify, inspire, retrace, help, reestablish, reform, reverse, bear upon, resort, be cured _or_ healed, concern, rekindle, rehab, remake, limit, impact, tidy, relaunch, gear up, brush, pick up, come to, refer, vivify, desexualise, affect, reinstate, refreshen, repair, redo, awaken, hand, transform, put back, provoke, come in, hand over, return, yield, cook, give, furbish, desex, sophisticate, regain, doctor up, revamp, doctor, invoke, admit, keep, abrogate, fixate, compensate, clean, sort out, touch, have, regenerate, determine, resurrect, ready, strong, revitalize, take back, set, lavish, refurbish, codify, get, secure, modify, posit, indemnify, rouse, give back, re-create, pick up after, desexualize, new

invigorate, convalesce, rehabilitate, make well, recuperate, remedy, cure, heal, revive

mend, darn, reconstitute, overhaul, recondition, rejuvenate, fix, improve, renovate

enliven, resuscitate, rally, refresh, recharge, recoup, stimulate, reinvigorate, recover, renew, divert, exhilarate, freshen

Usage examples:

• It therefore became the more necessary for me to return, to restore things to their former state. - "A Voyage Towards the South Pole and Round the World, Volume 1", James Cook.
• One would have thought him fishing for pearls in the depths of the river, he was so fastidious in finding the exact current best calculated to restore a young lady from faintness. - "Mabel's Mistake", Ann S. Stephens.
• The words were few, but they served to restore Vavel to a cheerful mood. - "The Nameless Castle", Maurus Jókai.