Dictionary Entry
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
- 1intransitive verb
To return.
- 2intransitive verb
To go; to betake one's self; to resort; ass, to repair to sanctuary for safety.
- 3noun
The act of repairing or resorting to a place.
- 4noun
Place to which one repairs; a haunt; a resort.
- 5transitive 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.
- 6transitive verb
To make amends for, as for an injury, by an equivalent; to indemnify for; as, to repair a loss or damage.
- 7noun
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.
- 8noun
Condition with respect to soundness, perfectness, etc.; as, a house in good, or bad, repair; the book is out of repair.
- 9noun
the act of putting something in working order again
- 10noun
a frequently visited place
- 11noun
a formal way of referring to the condition of something
"the building was in good repair"
- 12verb
give new life or energy to
"A hot soup will revive me"
"This will renovate my spirits"
- 13verb
set straight or right
"remedy these deficiencies"
"rectify the inequities in salaries"
- 14verb
restore by replacing a part or putting together what is torn or broken
"She repaired her TV set"
"Repair my shoes please"
- 15verb
move, travel, or proceed toward some place
"He repaired to his cabin in the woods"
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- 16verb
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"
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