restoration
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5.7
- noun
- /ˌrɛstəˈreɪʃən/
- Specialized
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reconstrucción
- Paleontologists worked on the restoration of a dinosaur model to accurately represent its size and features.
Examples
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The restoration of the ancient forest allowed scientists to study the landscape as it appeared thousands of years ago.
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After years of research, the team completed a stunning restoration of the ancient coral reef ecosystem.
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The ultimate solution will only come with the rejection of fiat money worldwide and a restoration of commodity money.
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By early 1958, Batista was playing a cat-and-mouse game with the State Department over the restoration of constitutional guarantees.
Academic text (1994) -
What John Butt has termed the "culture of restoration" in reference to Dora Guranger's initiative was very far from being melancholic.
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They also believed that Taiwan had never belonged to China before the Dutch came, so there was no "restoration" in any sense; rather, Zheng had simply imposed an outside regime on Taiwan's aborigines.
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The first decade of the twenty-first century has seen an amazing flowering of formal poetry, interactive multimedia, opera, religious art, clothing fashions, the art of the perfumier, landscape restoration, animal and plant breeding, and domestic architecture.
Fiction book (1996)
Synonyms
89
4.2
Building something again after it is damaged or destroyed
Antonyms
Compounds
- Specialized
Care that helps someone regain movement and strength after an injury
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Etymology
Restoration can also mean a model that shows how something looked long ago and it uses the same root as restore, meaning 'make again'. So a museum 'restoration' is a recreated scene that brings back the past look of a landscape or animal.