0 past simple and past participle of restore
1 to return something or someone to an earlier good condition or position:
The badly neglected paintings have all been carefully restored.
After a week in bed, she was fully restored to health (= she felt healthy again).
The former leader was today restored to power in the first free elections for 20 years.
Doctors have restored his sight.
The government is trying to restore public confidence in its management of the economy.
Some people are in favour of restoring capital punishment for murderers.
They're trying to restore the good name of the manufacturer.
Ben's hobby is restoring vintage motorcycles.
What people prefer is important for deciding the ecology that is to be sustainably restored for development.
Possibly here represents /x/ restored by analogy to names in which it was preserved before a voiceless consonant.
When the complexities of such linguistic contexts are restored, the neat and tidy political narrative of language endangerment gives way.
