Definition of repair

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Repair (v. t.) 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..

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Repair :: Repair (n.) Place to which one repairs; a haunt; a resort.
Restore :: Restore (v. t.) To bring back to its former state; to bring back from a state of ruin, decay, disease, or the like; to repair; to renew; to recover..
Burghbote :: Burghbote (n.) A contribution toward the building or repairing of castles or walls for the defense of a city or town.
Patch :: Patch (v. t.) To mend with pieces; to repair with pieces festened on; to repair clumsily; as, to patch the roof of a house..
Dilapidate :: Dilapidate (v. i.) To get out of repair; to fall into partial ruin; to become decayed; as, the church was suffered to dilapidate..
Repairing :: Repairing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Repai.
Dentist :: Dentist (n.) One whose business it is to clean, extract, or repair natural teeth, and to make and insert artificial ones; a dental surgeon..
Redress :: Redress (v. t.) To set right, as a wrong; to repair, as an injury; to make amends for; to remedy; to relieve from..
Ploughbote :: Ploughbote (n.) Wood or timber allowed to a tenant for the repair of instruments of husbandry. See Bote.
Imp :: Imp (n.) To graft with new feathers, as a wing; to splice a broken feather. Hence, Fig.: To repair; to extend; to increase; to strengthen to equip..
Ramshackle :: Ramshackle (a.) Loose; disjointed; falling to pieces; out of repair.
Mend :: Mend (v. t.) To repair, as anything that is torn, broken, defaced, decayed, or the like; to restore from partial decay, injury, or defacement; to patch up; to put in shape or order again; to re-create; as, to mend a garment or a machine..
Nutrition :: Nutrition (n.) In a more limited sense, the process by which the living tissues take up, from the blood, matters necessary either for their repair or for the performance of their healthy functions..
Autoplasty :: Autoplasty (n.) The process of artificially repairing lesions by taking a piece of healthy tissue, as from a neighboring part, to supply the deficiency caused by disease or wounds..
Lineman :: Lineman (n.) A man employed to examine the rails of a railroad to see if they are in good condition; also, a man employed to repair telegraph lines..
Cartbote :: Cartbote (n.) Wood to which a tenant is entitled for making and repairing carts and other instruments of husbandry.
Corvee :: Corvee (n.) An obligation to perform certain services, as the repair of roads, for the lord or sovereign..
Reparable :: Reparable (a.) Capable of being repaired, restored to a sound or good state, or made good; restorable; as, a reparable injury..
Repair :: Repair (n.) 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..
Foxed :: Foxed (a.) Repaired by foxing; as, foxed boots..
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