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Repair   /rɪpˈɛr/   Listen
Repair

noun
1.
The act of putting something in working order again.  Synonyms: fix, fixing, fixture, mend, mending, reparation.
2.
A formal way of referring to the condition of something.
3.
A frequently visited place.  Synonyms: hangout, haunt, resort, stamping ground.
verb
(past & past part. repaired; pres. part. repairing)
1.
Restore by replacing a part or putting together what is torn or broken.  Synonyms: bushel, doctor, fix, furbish up, mend, restore, touch on.  "Repair my shoes please"  Antonym: break.
2.
Make amends for; pay compensation for.  Synonyms: compensate, indemnify, recompense.  "She was compensated for the loss of her arm in the accident"
3.
Move, travel, or proceed toward some place.  Synonym: resort.
4.
Set straight or right.  Synonyms: amend, rectify, remediate, remedy.  "Rectify the inequities in salaries" , "Repair an oversight"
5.
Give new life or energy to.  Synonyms: animate, quicken, reanimate, recreate, renovate, revive, revivify, vivify.  "This will renovate my spirits" , "This treatment repaired my health"



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"Repair" Quotes from Famous Books



... ill with malaria. He has gone back to England to get well again and to repair the car that broke ...
— A Journal of Impressions in Belgium • May Sinclair
... the saddle, and soon upon that noted causeway by which Cortez entered the city of Mexico. It has lost none of its attractions in the course of centuries, but has been kept in fine repair as a carriage-road, while the venerable trees that line it on either side look as old as the time of the Conquistadors. This noble carriage-way, through the marshy ground of the valley of Mexico, is an enlargement of the old causeway of the Indians, or, rather, it ...
— Mexico and its Religion • Robert A. Wilson
... beauty; it was a building of considerable size, irregular, in need of external repair. Through the middle of it ran a great archway, guarded by copies of the two Molossian hounds which stand before the Hall of Animals in the Vatican; beneath the arch, on the right-hand side, was the main entrance to the house. If you passed ...
— The Emancipated • George Gissing
... the great trumpet to summon the Deliverer; the righteous Sprout shall grow forth from the earth. Their Rock will soothe their pain, He will repair every breach. The Lord reigneth, and ...
— The Renascence of Hebrew Literature (1743-1885) • Nahum Slouschz
... The gale was still blowing, but I started to work on the necessary repairs. I have practically built one sledge out of two broken ones, while out on the ice and in weather almost as bad as this; and I have almost daily during the journey had to repair broken sledges, sometimes under fiercer conditions; and so I will describe this one job and hereafter, when writing about repairing a sledge, let it ...
— A Negro Explorer at the North Pole • Matthew A. Henson


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