repair
/ɹɪˈpɛɚ/ verb A2- To restore to good working order, fix, or improve damaged condition; to mend; to remedy. · to repair a house, a road, a shoe, a ship· to repair a shattered fortune
- To make amends for, as for an injury, by an equivalent; to indemnify for. · to repair a loss or damage· How can I repair this wrong?
Plural repair · 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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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.
It was in the private sitting-room to which we afterwards repaired that Holmes asked Baskerville what were his intentions.
I have no doubt that, in spite of the repairs, you could manage there for one night.”
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.
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