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Restore to a particular state
Answer for the clue "Restore to a particular state ", 11 letters:
recondition
Word definitions for recondition in dictionaries
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
v. bring into an improved condition; "He reconditioned the old appliances"
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
vb. To restore to a functional state, or to a condition resembling the original.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
also re-condition , 1850, from re- "back, again" + condition (v.). Related: Reconditioned ; reconditioning .
Usage examples of recondition.
His sole interest lay in getting one Captain Alicia DeVries not merely ambulatory but fully reconditioned, and his was clearly an obsessive personality.
The Territorial Police are trying out some reconditioned photojournalism robots and .
But the rest of the structure, having responded to reconditioning, now served admirably as administrative center for the coordinated world-wide reconstruction effort and the struggle against the Screamie plague.
I also observed that for those who undertake the initiation, it is always the first encounter that establishes the transaction, and it is always the barriers that remain - for some barriers always do remain, in spite of the reconditioning - that establish the outcome of the drama, or, to put it another way, the final form of the contract.
The world will have the material and the hands needed for a reconditioning of its life everywhere.
Seven years of travel, investigation, and study, calling for a total reconditioning, you might say, of my spiritual and intellectual perspectives.
Despair makes men weak, vulnerable to redaction, and self-hatred makes men unable to resist mental reconditioning.
Rechromed and fully reconditioned, the stove would cost a fortune, though one oven would never work right and the hip young thing who bought it would unwittingly underbake her bread.
Juan stated that sorcerers of ancient times developed a set of practices designed to recondition our energetic capabilities to perceive.
Helens while his hereditary palace was reconditioned, to better accommodate the newly appointed government.
Sometimes one man says something about himself that he didn’t aim to let slip, and one of his buddies at the table where he said it yawns and gets up and sidles over to the big log book by the Nurses’ Station and writes down the piece of information he heard—of therapeutic interest to the whole ward, is what the Big Nurse says the book is for, but I know she’s just waiting to get enough evidence to have some guy reconditioned at the Main Building, overhauled in the head to straighten out the trouble.
After reconditioning, the trucks would go to the central and southern fronts, where great counterattacks were beating back the Germans.
Telomod therapy might recondition the glial cells of the brain, but too many neurons are already dead for restoration of mental functions.
His sole interest lay in getting one Captain Alicia DeVries not merely ambulatory but fully reconditioned, and his was clearly an obsessive personality.
His father had given it to him when he sold his first teleplay: it was reconditioned, from the typing pool at the Security Pacific Bank.