Word Meanings - REPAIR - Book Publishers vocabulary database

fr. L. repatriare to return to one's contry, to go home again; pref. re- re- + patria native country, fr. pater father. See Father, and 1. To return. I thought . . . that he repaire should again. Chaucer. 2. To go; to betake one's self; to resort;

Additional info about word: REPAIR

fr. L. repatriare to return to one's contry, to go home again; pref. re- re- + patria native country, fr. pater father. See Father, and 1. To return. I thought . . . that he repaire should again. Chaucer. 2. To go; to betake one's self; to resort; ass, to repair to sanctuary for safety. Chaucer. Go, mount the winds, and to the shades repair. Pope.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of REPAIR)

• Amend
• Improve
• mend
• repair
• correct
• rectify
• better
• ameliorate
• reform
• Heal
• Cure
• restore
• remedy
• assuage
• cicatrize
• reconcile
• Mend
• Repair
• promote
• improve
• amend
• Redress
• Right
• order
• revise
• Refit
• rearrange
• readjust
• reprovide
• reinstate
• reorganize

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of REPAIR)

• Spare
• falsify
• corrupt

Related words: (words related to REPAIR)

• AMENDFUL
  Much improving.
• RIGHT-RUNNING
  Straight; direct.
• REFORMALIZE
  To affect reformation; to pretend to correctness.
• REFORMATIVE
  Forming again; having the quality of renewing form; reformatory. Good.
• CORRECTLY
  In a correct manner; exactly; acurately; without fault or error.
• AMELIORATE
  To grow better; to meliorate; as, wine ameliorates by age.
• CORRUPTIONIST
  One who corrupts, or who upholds corruption. Sydney Smith.
• CORRUPTIBLE
  1. Capable of being made corrupt; subject to decay. "Our corruptible bodies." Hooker. Ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold. 1 Pet. i. 18. 2. Capable of being corrupted, or morally vitiated; susceptible of depravation.
• RIGHTEOUSNESS
  The state of being right with God; justification; the work of Christ, which is the ground justification. There are two kinds of Christian righteousness: the one without us, which we have by imputation; the other in us, which consisteth of faith,
• RIGHT
  1. In a right manner. 2. In a right or straight line; directly; hence; straightway; immediately; next; as, he stood right before me; it went right to the mark; he came right out; he followed right after the guide. Unto Dian's temple goeth
• CORRECTORY
  Containing or making correction; corrective.
• IMPROVER
  One who, or that which, improves.
• REDRESSIVE
  Tending to redress. Thomson.
• REFITMENT
  The act of refitting, or the state of being refitted.
• CICATRIZE
  To heal or induce the formation of a cicatrix in, as in wounded or ulcerated flesh. Wiseman.
• READJUSTMENT
  A second adjustment; a new or different adjustment.
• CORRECTIFY
  To correct. When your worship's plassed to correctify a lady. Beau & Fl.
• REVISE
  A second proof sheet; a proof sheet taken after the first or a subsequent correction. (more info) 1. A review; a revision. Boyle.
• RIGHT-ANGLED
  Containing a right angle or right angles; as, a right-angled triangle.
• RIGHTEOUS
  Doing, or according with, that which is right; yielding to all their due; just; equitable; especially, free from wrong, guilt, or sin; holy; as, a righteous man or act; a righteous retribution. Fearless in his righteous cause. Milton.
• PREFORM
  To form beforehand, or for special ends. "Their natures and preformed faculties. " Shak.
• BRIGHT
  See I
• TRANSPARENT
  transparere to be transparent; L. trans across, through + parere to 1. Having the property of transmitting rays of light, so that bodies can be distinctly seen through; pervious to light; diaphanous; pellucid; as, transparent glass; a transparent
• IMBORDER
  To furnish or inclose with a border; to form a border of. Milton.
• CARTWRIGHT
  An artificer who makes carts; a cart maker.
• FRIGHTFUL
  1. Full of fright; affrighted; frightened. See how the frightful herds run from the wood. W. Browne. 2. Full of that which causes fright; exciting alarm; impressing terror; shocking; as, a frightful chasm, or tempest; a frightful appearance. Syn.
• SPRIGHTLY
  Sprightlike, or spiritlike; lively; brisk; animated; vigorous; airy; gay; as, a sprightly youth; a sprightly air; a sprightly dance. "Sprightly wit and love inspires." Dryden. The sprightly Sylvia trips along the green. Pope.
• SHRIGHT
  imp. & p. p. of Shriek. She cried alway and shright. Chaucer.
• INCORRECT
  1. Not correct; not according to a copy or model, or to established rules; inaccurate; faulty. The piece, you think, is incorrect. Pope. 2. Not in accordance with the truth; inaccurate; not exact; as, an incorrect statement or calculation. 3. Not
• MISORDER
  To order ill; to manage erroneously; to conduct badly. Shak.
• PREFORMATIVE
  A formative letter at the beginning of a word. M. Stuart.
• UNCORRUPTIBLE
  Incorruptible. "The glory of the uncorruptible God." Rom. i.