rerestore

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rerestore (third-person singular simple present rerestores, present participle rerestoring, simple past and past participle rerestored)

To restore again.
- 1987, Richard J. Elderton, Positive Dental Prevention: The Prevention in Childhood of Dental Disease in Adult Life, page 57:
  The corner has, however, been turned, and it is now clear that dentists are acknowledging many of the drawbacks of yesterday's restorative philosophy and are adopting a more cautious approach when deciding whether or not to restore or rerestore; and when they do restore, they are being more conservative in their cavity preparations.
- 1996, Association for Preservation Technology Communique, page 7:
  As analytical technology has advanced, Colonial Williamsburg has grappled with the philosophical complexities of how best to rerestore, how much to intervene, how to reinterpret reconstructions that are in themselves historic, and how, in the process, to create new learning opportunities for visitors.
- 2012, Abbye A. Gorin, Conversations with Samuel Wilson, →ISBN:
  When they got rid of that, the museum personnel put it all back, but they did not make any attempt to rerestore what we had restored.