To Repair or Restore to Good Condition; to Make New Again
Definitions
from The Century Lexicon.
- To restore to a sound, good, or complete state after decay, injury, dilapidation, or fractional destruction; restore; renovate.
- To brand apology for, every bit for an injury, by an equivalent; give indemnity for; brand good: as, to
repair a loss or impairment. - To fortify; defend.
- To recover, or become into position for offense again, as a weapon.
- Synonyms To mend, refit, retouch, vamp (up), patch, tinker (upward).
- substantive Restoration to a sound or good state after decay, waste, injury, or partial destruction; supply of loss; reparation.
- substantive Adept or sound status kept upward by repairing every bit required; with a qualifying term, condition equally regards repairing: as, a building in practiced or bad repair.
- noun Reparation for wrong; amends.
- noun Attire; apparel.
- To go to a (specified) identify; betake i's cocky; resort: as, to
repair to a sanctuary for rubber. - To return.
- noun The act of betaking one'due south self to a (specified) place; a resorting.
- noun A place to which one repairs; haunt; resort.
- noun Probably, an invitation or a return.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English language.
- intransitive verb obsolete To return.
- intransitive verb To get; to betake one'due south self; to resort; ass, to
repair to sanctuary for safe. - noun rare The act of repairing or resorting to a place.
- noun rare Place to which one repairs; a haunt; a resort.
- noun Restoration to a audio or skilful state later decay, waste, injury, or partial restruction; supply of loss; reparation.
- noun Status with respect to soundness, perfectness, etc.
- transitive verb To restore to a audio or skilful land after decay, injury, dilapidation, or partial destruction; to renew; to restore; to mend.
- transitive verb To make apology for, as for an injury, by an equivalent; to indemnify for.
from Wiktionary, Creative Eatables Attribution/Share-Akin License.
- verb to
pair once again - noun An act of going on vacation.
- noun A place to which one goes oftentimes or habitually; a
haunt . - verb To transfer oneself to another identify.
- noun The human activity of repairing something.
- noun The consequence of repairing something.
- noun The
condition of something, in respect of need for repair. - verb To
restore topracticed workingorder ,fix , orimprove damaged condition ; tomend ; toremedy .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 past Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- substantive a often visited identify
- noun a formal way of referring to the status of something
- verb prepare straight or right
- verb move, travel, or go along toward some place
- verb give new life or energy to
- verb restore by replacing a part or putting together what is torn or cleaved
- verb brand apology for; pay bounty for
- substantive the human activity of putting something in working order again
Etymologies
from Wiktionary, Artistic Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
From re- + pair.
from Wiktionary, Artistic Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
Middle English repairen ("to render"), from Quondam French repairier, from Belatedly Latin repatrire ("to render to one'southward land"), from re- + patria ("homeland"). Cognate to repatriate.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
Coined between 1300 and 1350 from Eye English repairen, from Middle French reparer, from Latin reparÅ ("renew, repair").
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Examples
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If it leaks, the repair is ordinarily as easy as adding some caulking at the inside of the shower at the intersection between the wall and the base.
2009 July 21 | Reuben's Home Inspection Blog
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If it leaks, the repair is commonly as easy as calculation some caulking at the within of the shower at the intersection between the wall and the base.
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KING: I desire to send my very all-time to dame Elizabeth Taylor, going into the hospital for what she describes as the repair of a leaky heart valve.
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