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re⋅pair

1 [ri-pair]

–verb (used with object)

1.	to restore to a good or sound condition after decay or damage; mend: to repair a motor.

2.	to restore or renew by any process of making good, strengthening, etc.: to repair one's health by resting.

3.	to remedy; make good; make up for: to repair damage; to repair a deficiency.

4.	to make amends for; compensate: to repair a wrong done.

–noun

5.	an act, process, or work of repairing: to order the repair of a building.

Usually, repairs.

a.	an instance or operation of repairing: to lay up a boat for repairs.

b.	a repaired part or an addition made in repairing: 17th-century repairs in brick are conspicuous in parts of the medieval stonework.

7.	repairs, (in bookkeeping, accounting, etc.) the part of maintenance expense that has been paid out to keep fixed assets in usable condition, as distinguished from amounts used for renewal or replacement.

8.	the good condition resulting from continued maintenance and repairing: to keep in repair.

9.	condition with respect to soundness and usability: a house in good repair.

Origin:
1300–50; ME repairen < MF reparer < L reparāre, equiv. to re- re- + parāre to prepare; see pare

Related forms:

re⋅pair⋅a⋅ble, adjective

re⋅pair⋅a⋅bil⋅i⋅ty, re⋅pair⋅a⋅ble⋅ness, noun

Synonyms:
1. remodel, renovate. 2. patch, fix, amend. See renew. 3. retrieve, recoup. 4. redress.

Antonyms:
1–3. break, destroy.

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re⋅pair

2 [ri-pair]

–verb (used without object)

1.	to betake oneself; go, as to a place: He repaired in haste to Washington.

2.	to go frequently or customarily.

–noun

3.	a resort or haunt.

4.	the act of going or going customarily; resort: to have repair to the country.

5.	Scot. Obsolete. a meeting, association, or crowd of people.

Origin:
1300–50; ME repairen < OF repairier to return < LL repatriāre to return to one's fatherland; see repatriate

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re·pair¹ (rĭ-pâr')

v. re·paired, re·pair·ing, re·pairs

v. tr.

To restore to sound condition after damage or injury; fix: repaired the broken watch.
To set right; remedy: repair an oversight.
To renew or revitalize.
To make up for or compensate for (a loss or wrong, for example).

v. intr.
To make repairs.
n.

1. The work, act, or process of repairing.
2. An instance or a result of repairing. Often used in the plural: My car is in the shop for repairs. We checked the repairs before returning his car.
General condition after use or repairing: in good repair.
Something that has been repaired.

[Middle English reparen, repairen, from Old French reparer, from Latin reparāre : re-, re- + parāre, to prepare, put in order; see perə-¹ in Indo-European roots.]
re·pair'a·bil'i·ty n., re·pair'a·ble adj., re·pair'a·bly adv., re·pair'er n.

re·pair² (rĭ-pâr')

intr.v. re·paired, re·pair·ing, re·pairs

To betake oneself; go: repair to the dining room.
To go frequently or habitually: repairs to the restaurant every week.

An act of going or sojourning: our annual repair to the mountains.
A place to which one goes frequently or habitually; a haunt.

[Middle English repairen, to return, from Old French repairier, from Late Latin repatriāre, to return to one's country; see repatriate.]

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