Ameliorate vs Restore - What's the difference?
ameliorate | restore |
To make better, to improve.
* Macaulay
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 ameliorate and restore
is that ameliorate is to make better, to improve while restore is to give in place of, or as restitution for.As verbs the difference between ameliorate and restore
is that ameliorate is to make better, to improve 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.ameliorate
English
Verb
(ameliorat)- They offered some compromises in an effort to ameliorate the situation.
- In every human being there is a wish to ameliorate his own condition.
Synonyms
* See alsoAntonyms
* deteriorate * worsenrestore
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.