repair
/ɹɪˈpɛɚ/ verb C2- To transfer oneself to another place. · to repair to sanctuary for safety
He/she/it repairs · Past repaired · Past participle repaired · -ing form repairing
Verb forms
- Base form
- repair
- He/she/it
- repairs
- Past
- repaired
- Past participle
- repaired
- -ing form
- repairing
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The central portion was in little better repair, but the right-hand block was comparatively modern, and the blinds in the windows, with the blue smoke curling up from the chimneys, showed that this was where the family resided.
“What conditions have I forgotten, your excellency?” inquired the bandit, with the air of a man who, having committed an error, is anxious to repair it.
“Then all he has got to do is to endeavor to repair it.”
A short walk brought us to it, a bleak moorland house, once the farm of some grazier in the old prosperous days, but now put into repair and turned into a modern dwelling.
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