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Rest Period
- noun - a pause for relaxation; "people actually accomplish more when they take time for short rests"
Restinction
- - Act of quenching or extingishing.
Restinguish
- - To quench or extinguish.
Restituting
- verb - give or bring back; "Restore the stolen painting to its rightful owner"
- restore to a previous or better condition; "They renovated the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel"
Restitution
- noun - a sum of money paid in compensation for loss or injury
- getting something back again; "upon the restitution of the book to its rightful owner the child was given a tongue lashing"
- the act of restoring something to its original state
Restoration
- noun - a model that represents the landscape of a former geological age or that represents and extinct animal etc.
- getting something back again; "upon the restitution of the book to its rightful owner the child was given a tongue lashing"
- make good
- some artifact that has been restored or reconstructed; "the restoration looked exactly like the original"
- the act of restoring something or someone to a satisfactory state
- the re-establishment of the British monarchy in 1660
- the reign of Charles II in England; 1660-1685
- the state of being restored to its former good condition; "the inn was a renovation of a Colonial house"
Restorative
- adjective - a device for treating injury or disease
- a medicine that strengthens and invigorates
- promoting recuperation; "recuperative powers"; "strongly recuperative remedies"; "restorative effects of exercise"
- tending to impart new life and vigor to; "the renewing warmth of the sunshine"
Restraining
- verb - hold back
- keep under control; keep in check; "suppress a smile"; "Keep your temper"; "keep your cool"
- place limits on (extent or access); "restrict the use of this parking lot"; "limit the time you can spend with your friends"
- to close within bounds, limit or hold back from movement; "This holds the local until the express passengers change trains"; "About a dozen animals were held inside the stockade"; "The illegal immigrants were held at a detention center"; "The terrorists held the journalists for ransom"
- to compel or deter by or as if by threats
Restricting
- verb - make more specific; "qualify these remarks"
- place limits on (extent or access); "restrict the use of this parking lot"; "limit the time you can spend with your friends"
- place restrictions on; "curtail drinking in school"
- place under restrictions; limit access to; "This substance is controlled"
- restricting the scope or freedom of action
Restriction
- noun - a principle that limits the extent of something; "I am willing to accept certain restrictions on my movements"
- an act of limiting or restricting (as by regulation)
- the act of keeping something within specified bounds (by force if necessary); "the restriction of the infection to a focal area"