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Verb: repair ri'pehr- Restore by replacing a part or putting together what is torn or broken
"She repaired her TV set"; "Repair my shoes please" - mend, fix, bushel [US], doctor, furbish up, restore, touch on - Make amends for; pay compensation for
"One can never fully repair the suffering and losses of the Jews in the Third Reich" - compensate, recompense, indemnify - Move, travel, or proceed toward some place
"He repaired to his cabin in the woods" - resort - Set straight or right
"repair an oversight" - rectify, remediate, remedy, amend - Give new life or energy to
"This treatment repaired my health" - animate, recreate, reanimate, revive, renovate, quicken, vivify, revivify Noun: repair ri'pehr- The act of putting something in working order again
- fix, fixing, fixture, mend, mending, reparation - A formal way of referring to the condition of something
"the building was in good repair" - A frequently visited place
- haunt, hangout, resort, stamping ground, stomping ground [N. Amer]
Derived forms: repairs, repaired, repairing See also: repairer, reparation Type of: ameliorate, amend, area, arouse, better, brace, condition, correct, country, energise [Brit], energize, go, improve, improvement, locomote, meliorate, move, pay, perk up, rectify, right, status, stimulate, travel Antonym: break Encyclopedia: Repair |