restitute

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
9
Words With Friends
10
Letters
9
Pronunciation
/ˈɹɛstɪtjuːt/
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/ˈɹɛstɪtjuːt/ · /ˈɹɛstɪtuːt/

Definition of restitute

4 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

verb

  1. (transitive)To restore (something) to its former condition.
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verb

  1. (transitive)To restore (something) to its former condition.
  2. (transitive)To provide recompense for (something).
    “[…] when Frederick M. (Bantam) Lyons had rapidly and successively requested, perused and restituted the copy of the current issue of the Freeman's Journal and National Press which he had been about to throw away (subsequently thrown away), he had proceeded towards the oriental edifice of the Turkish and Warm Baths.[…]”
    “What I spill in talk or acts rarely is restituted in writing.”
    “[W]hat it represents is the inability of language to restitute the loss of memory.”
  3. (transitive)To refund.
    “We were even ordered to restitute the legal costs of the defendants.”

noun

  1. That which is restored or offered in place of something; a substitute.

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Etymology

From Old French restituer, from Latin restituō (“replace, restore”).

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