Repair

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1. Verb

To return.

2. Verb

To go; to betake one's self; to resort; ass, to repair to sanctuary for safety.

3. Noun

The act of repairing or resorting to a place.

4. Noun

Place to which one repairs; a haunt; a resort.

5. 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.

6. Verb

To make amends for, as for an injury, by an equivalent; to indemnify for; as, to repair a loss or damage.

7. Noun

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.

8. Noun

Condition with respect to soundness, perfectness, etc.; as, a house in good, or bad, repair; the book is out of repair.

9. Noun

a formal way of referring to the condition of something; "the building was in good repair"
Vocabulary classified under Environmental science
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