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Verb repair has 5 senses
- repair, mend, fix, bushel, doctor, furbish up, restore, touch on - restore by replacing a part or putting together what is torn or broken; "She repaired her TV set"; "Repair my shoes please"
--1 is one way to better, improve, amend, ameliorate, meliorate
Antonyms: break, bust
Sample sentence:
The men repair the chairs
- compensate, recompense, repair, indemnify - 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"
--2 is one way to pay
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s something to somebody
- repair, resort - move, travel, or proceed toward some place; "He repaired to his cabin in the woods"
--3 is one way to travel, go, move, locomote
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something
- rectify, remediate, remedy, repair, amend - set straight or right; "remedy these deficiencies"; "rectify the inequities in salaries"; "repair an oversight"
--4 is one way to correct, rectify, right
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
- animate, recreate, reanimate, revive, renovate, repair, quicken, vivify, revivify - give new life or energy to; "A hot soup will revive me"; "This will renovate my spirits"; "This treatment repaired my health"
--5 is one way to stimulate, arouse, brace, energize, energise, perk up
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
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