repair
31repair — I. intransitive verb Etymology: Middle English, from Anglo French repairer to go back, return from Late Latin repatriare to go home again, from Latin re + patria native country more at expatriate Date: 14th century 1. a. to betake oneself ; go <… …
32repair — 1. noun /ɹɪˈpɛə,ɹɪˈpɛɹ,ɹəˈpɛɹ/ a) The act of repairing something. I took the car to the workshop for repair. b) The result of repairing something. If you look closely you can see the repair in the paintwork See Also: reparation 2 …
33repair — Restoration of diseased or damaged tissues naturally by healing processes or artificially, as by surgical means. [M.E., fr. O.Fr., fr. L. re paro, fr. re , back, again, + paro, prepare, put in order] chemical r. conversion of a free radical to a… …
34repair to — phrasal verb [transitive] Word forms repair to : present tense I/you/we/they repair to he/she/it repairs to present participle repairing to past tense repaired to past participle repaired to literary repair to somewhere to move to a particular… …
35repair — {{11}}repair (v.1) to mend, to put back in order, late 14c., from O.Fr. reparer, from L. reparare restore, put back in order, from re again (see RE (Cf. re )) + parare make ready, prepare (see PARE (Cf. pare)). The noun is attested from 1590s.… …
36repair — I re•pair [[t]rɪˈpɛər[/t]] v. t. 1) to restore to a good or sound condition after decay or damage; mend 2) to restore or renew 3) to remedy; make up for; compensate for 4) an act, process, or work of repairing 5) Usu., repairs a) an instance or… …
37repair — To mend, remedy, restore, renovate. To restore to a sound or good state after decay, injury, dilapidation, or partial destruction. Congress Bar and Restaurant Inc. v. Transamerica Ins. Co., 42 Wis.2d 56, 165 N.W.2d 409, 412. The word repair… …
38repair — See maintain. See maintain, repair, service …
39repair — Synonyms and related words: adjust, adjustment, amends, apply, atone, atone for, bad condition, brighten up, brush up, case, cobble, commission, compensate, compensation, condition, correction, darn, do up, doctor, estate, expiate, fare, fettle,… …
40repair to — formal or humorous go to (a place). → repair …
