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Rekindle vs Restore - What's the difference?

rekindle | restore |

As verbs the difference between rekindle and restore

is that rekindle is to kindle once again 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.

rekindle

English

Verb

(en-verb)
  • To kindle once again.
  • To revive.
  • After being abroad for a decade, when he came back he rekindled his obsession with cricket.

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    restore

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (computing) The act of recovering data or a system from a backup.
  • Verb

    (restor)
  • To reestablish, or bring back into existence.
  • to restore harmony among those who are at variance
    He restored my lost faith in him by doing a good deed.
  • To bring back to a previous condition or state.
  • * Bible, Mark iii. 5
  • and his hand was restored whole as the other
  • * Prior
  • our fortune restored after the severest afflictions
  • To give or bring back (that which has been lost or taken); to bring back to the owner; to replace.
  • * Bible, Genesis xx. 7
  • Now therefore restore the man his wife.
  • * Milton
  • Loss of Eden, till one greater man / Restore us, and regain the blissful seat.
  • * Dryden
  • The father banished virtue shall restore .
  • To give in place of, or as restitution for.
  • * Bible, Exodus xxii. 1
  • He shall restore five oxen for an ox, and four sheep for a sheep.
  • (computing) To recover (data, etc.) from a backup.
  • There was a crash last night, and we're still restoring the file system.
  • (obsolete) To make good; to make amends for.
  • * Shakespeare
  • But if the while I think on thee, dear friend, / All losses are restored , and sorrows end.

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