Synonyms for Repair
rɪˈpɛərre·pair

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1. repair

   To amend is to change for the better by removing faults, errors, or defects, and always refers to that which at some point falls short of a standard of excellence. Advance, better, and improve may refer either to what is quite imperfect or to what has reached a high degree of excellence; we advance the kingdom of God, improve the minds of our children, better the morals of the people. But for matters below the point of ordinary approval we seldom use these words; we do not speak of bettering a wretched alley, or improving a foul sewer. There we use cleanse, purify, or similar words. We correct evils, reform abuses, rectify incidental conditions of evil or error; we ameliorate poverty and misery, which we can not wholly remove. We mend a tool, repair a building, correct proof; we amend character or conduct that is faulty, or a statement or law that is defective. A text, writing, or statement is amended by the author or by some adequate authority; it is often emended by conjecture. A motion is amended by the mover or by the assembly; a constitution is amended by the people; an ancient text is emended by a critic who believes that what seems to him the better reading is what the author wrote. Compare ALLEVIATE.

   Synonyms:
   advance, ameliorate, amend, better, cleanse, correct, emend, improve, make better, meliorate, mend, mitigate, purify, rectify, reform

   Antonyms:
   aggravate, blemish, corrupt, debase, depress, deteriorate, harm, impair, injure, mar, spoil, tarnish, vitiate

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1. repair

   Synonyms:
   restore, recover, mend, retrieve, relit

   Antonyms:
   impair, waste, wear, deteriorate, injure

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1. repair, fix, fixing, fixture, mend, mending, reparationnoun

   the act of putting something in working order again

   Synonyms:
   darn, stamping ground, haunt, neutering, locating, hole, fastener, holdfast, fixedness, fix, fixation, jam, fixture, mend, localisation, hangout, fixing, location, mending, habitue, altering, amends, fastening, kettle of fish, fastness, resort, mess, repair, secureness, regular, localization, pickle, fixity, muddle, reparation, patch

   Antonyms:
   break, bust

2. repairnoun

   a formal way of referring to the condition of something

   "the building was in good repair"

   Synonyms:
   fixture, mending, fixing, hangout, mend, reparation, stamping ground, resort, fix, haunt

   Antonyms:
   break, bust

3. haunt, hangout, resort, repair, stamping groundverb

   a frequently visited place

   Synonyms:
   repair, mending, reparation, fixture, resort, stamping ground, mend, fix, fixing, hangout, holiday resort, refuge, resort hotel, recourse, haunt

   Antonyms:
   bust, break

4. repair, mend, fix, bushel, doctor, furbish up, restore, touch onverb

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

   "She repaired her TV set"; "Repair my shoes please"

   Synonyms:
   touch, furbish up, cook, desexualise, sterilize, ready, concern, prepare, get, set up, compensate, revivify, remediate, recompense, secure, pertain, sterilise, gear up, impact, mend, regenerate, vivify, amend, situate, have-to doe with, heal, make, fasten, determine, renovate, bushel, desexualize, reestablish, define, specify, rejuvenate, reconstruct, sophisticate, quicken, refer, desex, affect, unsex, fixate, resort, restore, relate, rectify, touch on, recreate, deposit, remedy, repair, pay back, doctor up, posit, bear on, bear upon, come to, animate, reanimate, limit, revive, restitute, set, fix, pay off, reinstate, doctor, indemnify

   Antonyms:
   bust, break

5. compensate, recompense, repair, indemnifyverb

   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:
   even off, revivify, right, make up, compensate, animate, remediate, recompense, fix, furbish up, remunerate, even out, mend, vivify, amend, pay, renovate, bushel, correct, quicken, counterbalance, overcompensate, even up, resort, restore, rectify, touch on, recreate, remedy, repair, cover, reanimate, redress, revive, pay off, doctor, indemnify

   Antonyms:
   bust, break

6. repair, resortverb

   move, travel, or proceed toward some place

   "He repaired to his cabin in the woods"

   Synonyms:
   recreate, recur, resort, animate, mend, quicken, bushel, reanimate, furbish up, revivify, renovate, restore, recompense, touch on, fall back, rectify, indemnify, revive, doctor, fix, compensate, amend, vivify, remedy, repair, remediate

   Antonyms:
   bust, break

7. rectify, remediate, remedy, repair, amendverb

   set straight or right

   "remedy these deficiencies"; "rectify the inequities in salaries"; "repair an oversight"

   Synonyms:
   right, reform, compensate, revivify, remediate, recompense, fix, bushel, reanimate, mend, vivify, amend, renovate, improve, correct, quicken, regenerate, reclaim, resort, restore, ameliorate, relieve, rectify, touch on, recreate, remedy, refine, repair, animate, better, furbish up, meliorate, revive, doctor, indemnify

   Antonyms:
   bust, break

8. animate, recreate, reanimate, revive, renovate, repair, quicken, vivify, revivifyverb

   give new life or energy to

   "A hot soup will revive me"; "This will renovate my spirits"; "This treatment repaired my health"

   Synonyms:
   speed up, furbish up, resuscitate, restitute, compensate, animate, remediate, quicken, fix, amend, enliven, mend, cheer, vivify, animize, accelerate, refurbish, liven up, renovate, bushel, invigorate, speed, inspire, exalt, resurrect, play, hearten, restore, freshen up, rectify, touch on, recompense, recreate, animise, remedy, resort, repair, come to, reanimate, embolden, liven, revive, revivify, whet, doctor, indemnify

   Antonyms:
   bust, break

Matched Categories

1. • Condition
   • Correct
   • Improvement
   • Stimulate
   • Travel

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1. repairverb

   Synonyms:
   mend, refit, retouch, vamp, tinker, piece, patch, touch up, vamp up, patch up

2. repairverb

   Synonyms:
   retrieve, restore, make good

3. repairverb

   Synonyms:
   redress, atone for, make amends for

4. repairnoun

   Synonyms:
   restoration, reparation, renewal, refitting, mending

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1. repairnoun

   Synonyms:
   renovation, restoration, reconstruction, reparation, rehabilitation

2. repairverb

   Synonyms:
   mend, restore, patch, tinker, revamp, darn, cobble, remodel, indemnify, redress, atone for, retrieve, regain

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1. List of paraphrases for "repair":

   reparation, repairs, redress, repairing, reparations, fix, remedy, compensation, maintenance, remedying, repaired, remedial, remedies, restoration, relief, restorative, reform, rehabilitation, remediation, mend

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1. Lindsey Vonn:

   I am not able make the turns necessary to compete the way I know I can. My body is broken beyond repair and it isn't letting me have the final season I dreamed of. My body is screaming at me to STOP and it's time for me to listen.

2. Ralph Waldo Emerson, Society and Solitude: Works and Days, 1870:

   A man builds a fine house; and now he has a master, and a task for life; he is to furnish, watch, show it, and keep it in repair, the rest of his days.

3. Earl Weener:

   Yesterday I mentioned that we found a failure in a component of the left front wheel. The NTSB has learned that Ride the Ducks International, which refurbished the accident vehicle in 2005, notified its customers of a potential safety related concern in 2013. They recommended repair or increased monitoring by operators.

4. Jennifer Marshall:

   My rank was E-5, or Second Class Petty Officer. During my five years of service, I worked on the tarmac, in aviation logistics, was on the ship's security defense team and the repair locker fire team( firefighting and damage control). Definitely a variety of jobs and experiences, which I am thankful for.

5. Prime Minister Matteo Renzi:

   The dam must be repaired because it could cause a civilian disaster, we will repair the dam and the workers will be defended by our troops, who are already present in Iraq.