meaning of repair
1. To return.
2. To go; to betake ones self; to resort; ass, to repair to sanctuary for safety.
3. The act of repairing or resorting to a place.
4. Place to which one repairs; a haunt; a resort.
5. 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.
6. To make amends for, as for an injury, by an equivalent; to indemnify for; as, to repair a loss or damage.
7. 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.
8. Condition with respect to soundness, perfectness, etc. ; as, a house in good, or bad, repair; the book is out of repair.
9. the act of putting something in working order again
Related Words
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