Definition of Repair
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
- 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]
See also:
repaints
repairabilities
Anagrams containing the word repair