repair

repair is a 6-letter English word with 16 senses as intransitive verb, noun, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To return. Face value is 8 in Scrabble and 9 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

6 letters · Scrabble 8 · Words With Friends 9 · 16 senses

Definitions

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

   Synonyms: fix, fixing, fixture, mend, mending, reparation

10. noun. a frequently visited place

    Synonyms: hangout, haunt, resort

11. noun. a formal way of referring to the condition of something

    "the building was in good repair"

12. verb. give new life or energy to

    "A hot soup will revive me"

    "This will renovate my spirits"

    Synonyms: animate, quicken, reanimate, recreate, renovate, revive, revivify, vivify

13. verb. set straight or right

    "remedy these deficiencies"

    "rectify the inequities in salaries"

    Synonyms: amend, rectify, remediate, remedy

14. verb. restore by replacing a part or putting together what is torn or broken

    "She repaired her TV set"

    "Repair my shoes please"

    Synonyms: bushel, doctor, fix, mend, restore

15. verb. move, travel, or proceed toward some place

    "He repaired to his cabin in the woods"

    Synonyms: resort

16. verb. make amends for; pay compensation for

    "One can never fully repair the suffering and losses of the Jews in the Third Reich"

    "She was compensated for the loss of her arm in the accident"

    Synonyms: compensate, indemnify, recompense

Synonyms

fix, fixing, fixture, mend, mending, reparation, hangout, haunt, resort, animate, quicken, reanimate, recreate, renovate, revive, revivify, vivify, amend, rectify, remediate, remedy, bushel, doctor, restore

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in repair:

pairer, rapier

Common word forms

repairs, repaired, repairer, repairing, repairable

Words from these letters

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