repair
Meaning of repair
noun
- The act of repairing something.
I took the car to the workshop for repair.
- The result of repairing something.
If you look closely you can see the repair in the paintwork.
- The condition of something, in respect of need for repair.
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 restore to good working order, fix, or improve damaged condition; to mend; to remedy.
to repair a house, a road, a shoe, or a ship
- To make amends for, as for an injury, by an equivalent; to indemnify for.
to repair a loss or damage
- The act of repairing or resorting to a place.
our annual repair to the mountains
- A place to which one goes frequently or habitually; a haunt.
- To transfer oneself to another place.
to repair to sanctuary for safety
verb
To pair again
Information about repair
- The plural form of repair is: repairs.
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Hyphenation of repair
re-pair
- It consists of 2 syllables and 6 chars.
- repair is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables
repair synonyms
Meaning fix:
fix, fixing, fixture, mend, mending, reparation
Meaning haunt:
Meaning mend:
mend, fix, bushel, doctor, restore
Meaning compensate:
compensate, recompense, indemnify
Meaning resort:
Meaning rectify:
rectify, remediate, remedy, amend
Meaning animate:
animate, recreate, reanimate, revive, renovate, quicken, vivify, revivify
Translation of repair
- Portuguese: reparar, consertar, retificar, reparo
- Spanish: reparar, arreglar, componer, recomponer, modificar, recuperar, reformar, rectificar, remediar, reparación
- Italian: riparare, aggiustare, accomodare, rimediare, rettificare, riparazione
- German: reparieren, verbessern, korrigieren, ausbessern, Reparatur
- French: réparer, rectifier, réparation
Anagrams of repair
Words that rhyme with repair
pair, apair, intrapair, depair, disrepair, irrepair, nonrepair, unrepair, empair, impair, preimpair, unimpair, stereopair, thermopair, appair, despair, dispair, predespair, spair, aupair
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