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, 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:
   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, 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, 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, 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, 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, come to, reanimate, embolden, liven, revive, revivify, whet, doctor, indemnify

   Antonyms:
   bust, break

Matched Categories

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

Dictionary of English SynonymesRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

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. Judy Chu:

   Thirteen-million dollars would have roughly been the same amount that could go to three emergency road repair projects on Route 2 in the San Gabriel Valley. So just think what that money could have gone to.

2. Defense Minister Nikolay Nenchev:

   Poland is the only country that has the economic and the technological capacity to maintain and repair our MiG-29s.

3. Thomas Rando:

   As we age, we experience slower and less complete healing of our tissues, we wanted to understand what controls that regenerative ability and how fasting impacts this process. We found that fasting induces resilience in muscle stem cells so that they survive during deprivation and are available to repair muscle when nutrients are again available.

4. Nassib Ghobril:

   Obviously Lebanon needs to repair its relationship with the Gulf Cooperation Council - it's a lifeline of our economy.

5. Dendy Engelman:

   The minimally invasive microneedling technique involves a series of tiny, very fine needles that are passed over the skin, creating micro-injuries which trigger new collagen and elastin synthesis as the skin begins to naturally repair itself.