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repairing

noun B1
  1. The act by which something is repaired; a mending.

Plural repairings

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He repeated that the matter was of the utmost importance, and added that no steps would be taken about my future—by which he means, of course, my dismissal—until my health was restored and I had an opportunity of repairing my misfortune.”
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, p. 74 · B2
“Shall I assist you in repairing your negligence?” asked Franz.
The Count of Monte Cristo, p. 367 · C1
Workmen were immediately called in, and that same night the passengers at the end of the faubourg saw with surprise that carpenters and masons were occupied in repairing the lower part of the tottering house.
The Count of Monte Cristo, p. 947 · C1
The singularity of this step, and above all its formality, had not a little surprised the banker, who had immediately obeyed his daughter by repairing first to the drawing-room.
The Count of Monte Cristo, p. 948 · C1

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