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Meaning of 'repair' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Repair [ n.]
- The act of repairing or resorting to a place.
- Place to which one repairs; a haunt; a resort.
- Restoration to a sound or good state after decay, waste, injury, or partial restruction; supply of loss; reparation; as, materials are collected for the repair of a church or of a city.
- Condition with respect to soundness, perfectness, etc.; as, a house in good, or bad, repair; the book is out of repair.
2 . Repair [ v. i.]
- To return.
- To go; to betake one's self; to resort; ass, to repair to sanctuary for safety.
3 . Repair [ v. t.]
- To restore to a sound or good state after decay, injury, dilapidation, or partial destruction; to renew; to restore; to mend; as, to repair a house, a road, a shoe, or a ship; to repair a shattered fortune.
- To make amends for, as for an injury, by an equivalent; to indemnify for; as, to repair a loss or damage.

Meaning of 'repair' (Princeton's WordNet)

1 . repair [ n]
Meaning (1):
- a formal way of referring to the condition of something
Example in sentence:
  • the building was in good repair
2 . repair [ v]
Meaning (2):
- give new life or energy to
Example in sentence:
  • A hot soup will revive me;
  • This treatment repaired my health;
  • This will renovate my spirits
Meaning (3):
- move, travel, or proceed toward some place
Example in sentence:
  • He repaired to his cabin in the woods
Meaning (4):
- make amends for; pay compensation for
Example in sentence:
  • One can never fully repair the suffering and losses of the Jews in the Third Reich;
  • She was compensated for the loss of her arm in the accident
Meaning (5):
- set straight or right
Example in sentence:
  • rectify the inequities in salaries;
  • remedy these deficiencies;
  • repair an oversight
Meaning (6):
- restore by replacing a part or putting together what is torn or broken
Example in sentence:
  • Repair my shoes please;
  • She repaired her TV set

Nearby Words:

rep rep-silver repace repacify repack repacker repaganize repaid repaint repairable

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