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

   Antonyms:
   bust, break

Matched Categories

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

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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. Dr Xi Li:

   Eleven million people have fled their homes in terror and millions of buildings have been destroyed, the electricity infrastructure itself is in need of wholesale re-building and repair after incessant and targeted attacks by all parties to the conflict, especially in areas under opposition control.

2. Judy Lubin:

   When you see white working-class Americans saying that I'm benefiting and my family is getting help from the Affordable Care Act, you start to hear 'repair' not 'repeal,' whites standing up in support of a policy changes the dynamics of the conversation.

3. President Trump:

   He also said they are still considering restrictive language in the appropriations bill and what that means for current projects. He added that money, which he called a down-payment, will be funding construction and repair in areas including San Diego, Calexico, and Santa Theresa, New Mexico. He said that the Calexico project started last week. President Trump objected to the $ 1.3 trillion omnibus bill due to the lack of funding for border security, and has been looking into the possibility of getting the military to fund the approximately $ 25 billion project. Conservatives noted that the bill limited the approximately 100 miles of new construction and repairs to already approved models -- not the prototypes President Trump recently viewed in California. While Vitiello noted that a lot of the 100 miles was replacement, he said it was new construction and that some parts are moving from old, often dilapidated fencing to 30-foot steel bollard designs. He said that, for instance, in El Paso a three-foot vehicle barrier was being replaced by 18 or 30 foot wall. On what needs to be done, Vitiello said that that the entire wall project would cover approximately 1,000 miles with various wall structures, he believed $ 25 billion in funding would adequately fund that project. He said that from the testing of the prototypes, a new design standard was being formulated that would be used going forward. Currently, approximately 654 miles of the border are covered by some form of fencing or barrier. Vitiello's remarks come a day after President Trump touted the early stages of construction at a speech in Richfield, Ohio. We started our wall — what a thing of beauty.

4. Asim Rahman:

   We cannot accept the Board's decision to deny shareholders any opportunity to vote on it ... Technically the transaction does not require shareholder approval, but an endorsement by shareholders would provide an opportunity to repair market trust in the investment case.

5. James Jordan:

   One event could create damage which costs millions to repair, maybe even closer to hundreds of millions depending on the aircraft that are involved.