Word Meaning

repair definition and meaning

v. i. To return.
v. i. To go; to betake one's self; to resort; ass, to repair to sanctuary for safety.
n. The act of repairing or resorting to a place.
n. Place to which one repairs; a haunt; a resort.
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.
v. t. To make amends for, as for an injury, by an equivalent; to indemnify for; as, to repair a loss or damage.
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.
n. Condition with respect to soundness, perfectness, etc.; as, a house in good, or bad, repair; the book is out of repair.

Crossword clues for repair

- Be good again
- Compensate for
- Fix
- Fix crooked rapier
- Fix rapier
- Make better
- Mend
- Mend and match up odd socks?
- Mend and match up stray socks?
- Patch up
- rehabilitation
- Resole or restitch
- Restore to good condition
- State of condition