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

Synonyms:

service, resurrect, desexualize, inspire, kettle of fish, specify, secure, right, cheer, fixity, renovate, even out, maintain, amends, regular, enliven, jam, animate, define, deposit, pickle, embolden, fall back, refer, mending, impact, fastening, restoration, counterbalance, fixate, restored portion, pertain, fixedness, altering, holiday resort, reanimate, emend, holdfast, animize, health, help, concern, reclaim, refuge, resort, refit, limit, make, cleanse, nick, hangout, cover, mitigate, set right, accelerate, fastness, affect, resuscitate, optimization, touch on, liven, overcompensate, purify, liven up, redress, enhance, overhaul, renewal, replacement, locating, bear upon, substitution, darn, revitalize, new part, meliorate, better, refurbish, recreate, make better, advance, improvement, reconstruct, desexualise, soldering, heal, localization, sterilize, reestablish, play, estate, sophisticate, whet, lift, refine, recompense, reinstate, boost, unsex, remunerate, relieve, fixture, set, stamping ground, enrich, reformation, bushel, brazure, revivify, pay off, fixation, fasten, running repair, repairing, compensate, fastener, situate, renovation, recur, mend, remediate, pay, servicing, furbish up, speed up, bear on, mess, adjustment, shape, quicken, hole, habitue, trim, secureness, make up, prepare, relate, reparation, restitute, doctor, touch, reform, muddle, resort hotel, heel, revive, improve on, sterilise, restore, form, vivify, exalt, fix up, maintenance, regenerate, pay back, localisation, animise, order, recourse, revamp, cook, invigorate, get, desex, fixing, kilter, fettle, freshen up, have-to doe with, hearten, come to, do up, set up, speed, even up, keeping, rejuvenate, gear up, neutering, do-it-yourself, haunt, posit, even off, ameliorate, location, rehabilitation, determine, ready, indemnify, doctor up

correct, patch, adjust, revise, improve, amend, alter, remedy, fix, rectify

Usage examples:

• A second sent to ask leave to repair his house, which was thoroughly effected soon. - "The Siege of Boston", Allen French.
• I took it from her and began the simple work of repair. - "The Portal of Dreams", Charles Neville Buck.
• They begin to repair the damage while it is yet being done. - "The Red Symbol", John Ironside.