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repair

verb
/ɹɪˈpɛə/UK/ɹɪˈpɛɹ/US/ɹɪˈpɛɚ/US/ˈriːpɛə/UK/ˈriːpɛɚ/US

Etymology

From Middle English repairen (“to return”), from Old French repairier, from Late Latin repatriare (“to return to one's country”), from re- + patria (“homeland”). Cognate to repatriate.

  1. derived from reparō
  2. derived from reparer
  3. inherited from repairen

Definitions

  1. To restore to good working order, fix, or improve damaged condition

    To restore to good working order, fix, or improve damaged condition; to mend; to remedy.

    • to repair a house, a road, a shoe, a ship
    • to repair a shattered fortune
    • Secret refreſhings, that repair his ſtrength,

  2. To make amends for, as for an injury, by an equivalent

    To make amends for, as for an injury, by an equivalent; to indemnify for.

    • to repair a loss or damage
    • I'll repair the misery thou dost bear.

  3. The act of repairing something.

    • I took the car to the workshop for repair.
    • One of the hidden glories of Victorian engineering is proper drains.[…]But out of sight is out of mind. And that[…]means that many old sewers have been neglected and are in dire need of repair.
  4. ›+ 6 more definitions

    1. The result of repairing something.

      • If you look closely you can see the repair in the paintwork.

    2. 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.
      • The 1300 class (Nos. 1301-16), one of which was damaged beyond repair in an accident, are Co-Cos, weigh 111 tons and have a top speed of 85 m.p.h.
      • Thirteen houses were damaged beyond repair, and much of the rest of the town suffered broken windows and lost slates.

    3. The act of repairing or resorting to a place.

      • our annual repair to the mountains
      • The king sent a proclamation for their repair to their houses.

    4. A place to which one goes frequently or habitually

      A place to which one goes frequently or habitually; a haunt.

      • There the fierce winds his tender force assail / And beat him downward to his first repair.

    5. To transfer oneself to another place.

      • to repair to sanctuary for safety
      • Go, mount the winds, and to the shades repair.
      • At the hour of half-past five we repaired to our engagement.

    6. To pair again.

      • Please try to repair the two earbuds to each other. Place both earbuds back into the charging case, wait for four seconds, then open it and see if they have been repaired with one another.

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Derived

misrepair, photorepair, repairability, repairable, reparable, repairer, repairment, repairosome, right to repair, antirepair, chancel repair liability, credit repair, disrepair, in bad repair, in good repair, mismatch repair cancer syndrome, nonrepair, repair heddle, repairman, repairperson, repair shop, repairwoman, right of repair, self-repair, unrepair

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at repair. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

01repair02mend03fire04damage05expense06loss07destroyed

A definitional loop anchored at repair. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

7 hops · closes at repair

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA