repair

Plural: repairs

Noun

• the act of putting something in working order again
• a formal way of referring to the condition of something
  • "the building was in good repair"
• a frequently visited place
• The act of repairing something.
• The result of repairing something.
• The condition of something, in respect of need for repair.
• The act of repairing or resorting to a place.
• A place to which one goes frequently or habitually; a haunt.

Verb

Verb Forms: repaired, repairing, repairs

• To restore something damaged or faulty to good condition.
• restore by replacing a part or putting together what is torn or broken
  • "She repaired her TV set"
  • "Repair my shoes please"
• make amends for; pay compensation for
  • "One can never fully repair the suffering and losses of the Jews in the Third Reich"
• move, travel, or proceed toward some place
  • "He repaired to his cabin in the woods"
• set straight or right
  • "repair an oversight"
• give new life or energy to
  • "This treatment repaired my health"
• To restore to good working order, fix, or improve damaged condition; to mend; to remedy.
• To make amends for, as for an injury, by an equivalent; to indemnify for.
• To transfer oneself to another place.
• To pair again.

Examples

• I needed to repair my Words With Friends strategy after a string of losses.
• I took the car to the workshop for repair.
• If you look closely you can see the repair in the paintwork.
• our annual repair to the mountains
• Please try to repair the two earbuds to each other. Place both earbuds back into the charging case, wait for four seconds, then open it and see if they have been repaired with one another.
• The car was overall in poor repair before the accident. But after the workshop had it for three weeks it was returned in excellent repair. But the other vehicle was beyond repair.
• to repair a house, a road, a shoe, a ship
• to repair a loss or damage
• to repair a shattered fortune
• to repair to sanctuary for safety

Synonyms

amend, animate, bushel, compensate, doctor, fix, fixing, fixture, furbish up, hangout, haunt, indemnify, mend, mending, quicken, reanimate, recompense, recreate, rectify, remediate, remedy, renovate, reparation, resort, restore, revive, revivify, stamping ground, touch on, vivify, correct, fix up, kludge, make whole, patch, put to rights, reform, renew, restrive, revamp

Antonyms

break, aggravate, damage, hurt, make matters worse

Related Words

improve, reparation, reparative