Repair

Pronunciation

• UK IPA: /ɹɪˈpɛə/
• US IPA: /ɹɪˈpɛɹ/, /ɹəˈpɛɹ/
• Rhymes: -ɛə(r)

Coined between 1300 and 1350 from Middle English repairen, from Middle French reparer, from Latin reparō ("renew, repair").

Full definition of repair

Noun

1. The act of repairing something.
   I took the car to the workshop for repair.
• 2014-06-14, It's a gas, 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.
2. The result of repairing something.
   If you look closely you can see the repair in the paintwork.
3. 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.

Derived terms

• disrepair

Related terms

• reparation

Verb

1. To restore to good working order, fix, or improve damaged condition; to mend; to remedy.to repair a house, a road, a shoe, or a shipto repair a shattered fortune
• Miltonsecret refreshings that repair his strength
• WordsworthDo thou, as thou art wont, repair
  My heart with gladness.
2. To make amends for, as for an injury, by an equivalent; to indemnify for.to repair a loss or damage
• ShakespeareI'll repair the misery thou dost bear.

Synonyms

Derived terms

• repairable
  reparable, repairer

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.

Noun

1. The act of repairing or resorting to a place.our annual repair to the mountains
• ClarendonThe king sent a proclamation for their repair to their houses.
2. A place to which one goes frequently or habitually; a haunt.
• DrydenThere the fierce winds his tender force assail
  And beat him downward to his first repair.

Verb

1. To transfer oneself to another place.to repair to sanctuary for safety
• Alexander PopeGo, mount the winds, and to the shades repair.
• 1850, Charlotte Brontë, Jane EyreI heard the visitors repair to their chambers.

Derived terms

• repatriate

From - + pair.

Verb

1. to pair again

Anagrams

• rapier