Amend vs Restore - What's the difference?
amend | restore |
To make better.
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* Shakespeare
* Sir Walter Scott
To become better.
(obsolete) To heal (someone sick); to cure (a disease etc.).
* 1590 , (Edmund Spenser), (The Faerie Queene) , III.x:
*, II.2.6.ii:
To make a formal alteration in legislation by adding, deleting, or rephrasing.
To reestablish, or bring back into existence.
To bring back to a previous condition or state.
* Bible, Mark iii. 5
* Prior
To give or bring back (that which has been lost or taken); to bring back to the owner; to replace.
* Bible, Genesis xx. 7
* Milton
* Dryden
To give in place of, or as restitution for.
* Bible, Exodus xxii. 1
(computing) To recover (data, etc.) from a backup.
(obsolete) To make good; to make amends for.
* Shakespeare
In lang=en terms the difference between amend and restore
is that amend is to make a formal alteration in legislation by adding, deleting, or rephrasing while restore is to give in place of, or as restitution for.As verbs the difference between amend and restore
is that amend is to make better while restore is to reestablish, or bring back into existence.As a noun restore is
(computing) the act of recovering data or a system from a backup.amend
English
Verb
(en verb)- Mar not the thing that cannot be amended .
- We shall cheer her sorrows, and amend her blood, by wedding her to a Norman.
- But Paridell complaynd, that his late fight / With Britomart, so sore did him offend, / That ryde he could not, till his hurts he did amend .
- he gave her a vomit, and conveyed a serpent, such as she conceived, into the basin; upon the sight of it she was amended .
Synonyms
* ameliorate * correct * improve * See also * See alsoReferences
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*restore
English
Verb
(restor)- to restore harmony among those who are at variance
- He restored my lost faith in him by doing a good deed.
- and his hand was restored whole as the other
- our fortune restored after the severest afflictions
- Now therefore restore the man his wife.
- Loss of Eden, till one greater man / Restore us, and regain the blissful seat.
- The father banished virtue shall restore .
- He shall restore five oxen for an ox, and four sheep for a sheep.
- There was a crash last night, and we're still restoring the file system.
- But if the while I think on thee, dear friend, / All losses are restored , and sorrows end.