Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to repair
Participle: repaired
Gerund: repairing
Cognates
-
Indicative
Present
| I | repair |
| you | repair |
| he;she;it | repairs |
| we | repair |
| you | repair |
| they | repair |
Perfect
| I | have repaired |
| you | have repaired |
| he;she;it | has repaired |
| we | have repaired |
| you | have repaired |
| they | have repaired |
Past
| I | repaired |
| you | repaired |
| he;she;it | repaired |
| we | repaired |
| you | repaired |
| they | repaired |
Pluperfect
| I | had repaired |
| you | had repaired |
| he;she;it | had repaired |
| we | had repaired |
| you | had repaired |
| they | had repaired |
Future
| I | will repair |
| you | will repair |
| he;she;it | will repair |
| we | will repair |
| you | will repair |
| they | will repair |
Future Perfect
| I | will have repaired |
| you | will have repaired |
| he;she;it | will have repaired |
| we | will have repaired |
| you | will have repaired |
| they | will have repaired |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | repair |
| you | repair |
| he;she;it | repair |
| we | repair |
| you | repair |
| they | repair |
Perfect
| I | have repaired |
| you | have repaired |
| he;she;it | have repaired |
| we | have repaired |
| you | have repaired |
| they | have repaired |
Imperfect
| I | repaired |
| you | repaired |
| he;she;it | repaired |
| we | repaired |
| you | repaired |
| they | repaired |
Pluperfect
| I | had repaired |
| you | had repaired |
| he;she;it | had repaired |
| we | had repaired |
| you | had repaired |
| they | had repaired |
Conditional
Present
| I | would repair |
| you | would repair |
| he;she;it | would repair |
| we | would repair |
| you | would repair |
| they | would repair |
Perfect
| I | would have repaired |
| you | would have repaired |
| he;she;it | would have repaired |
| we | would have repaired |
| you | would have repaired |
| they | would have repaired |
Imperative
| you | repair |
| we | Let's repair |
| you | repair |
Verbs conjugated like 'repair'
abandon,
abduct,
abear,
aberr,
abject,
abord,
abort,
abound,
abraid,
abray,
abrook,
abscind,
abscond,
absist,
absorb,
abstain,
abstract,
accend,
accent,
accept, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'repair'
reair,
rehair,
apair,
appair,
deair,
dehair,
despair,
empair,
impair,
pair,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Synonyms
- mend; repair
- fix
- to restore to a sound or good state
- amend, fix, make whole, put to rights, reform
- To make something that was not valid become right. To remove error.
- correct
- To make a temporary, improvised repair.
- kludge
- To repair, as anything that is torn, broken, defaced, decayed, or the like.
- mend
- To repair as with patches
- patch
- To correct or amend something.
- rectify
- To correct or improve a deficiency or problem.
- remediate
- To provide or serve as a remedy for.
- remedy
- To make new again; to restore to freshness, perfection, or vigor
- renew
- To renew; to revamp something to make it look new again.
- renovate
- To bring back to a previous condition or state.
- restore
- to renovate, revise, improve or renew; to patch
- revamp
- to make reparation for an offence, crime, mistake or deficiency
- abide, acquit, answer, answer for, assoil, atone, expiate, make amends, propitiate, redeem, reparate
- fix
- correct, amend, rectify, mend, patch, remodel, renew, renovate
Antonyms
- to restore to a sound or good state
- aggravate, break, damage, hurt
- to cause damage to something
- heal, harm
- to make or render worse
- ameliorate, improve, restore, aggravate
- fix
- break, destroy, detach, remove
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. "to mend, to put back in order," 1387, from O.Fr.
reparer, from L.
reparare "restore, put back in order," from
re- "again" +
parare "make ready, prepare" (see pare). The noun is attested from 1595.
2. Coined between 1300 and 1350 from Middle English repairen, from Middle French reparer, from Latin reparō (“renew, repair”). See: Latin '
reparō'.
Verbs referencing "repair"
Ido reparar, German, old spelling
reparieren.
Sample Sentences
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On the ringing of a bell, the pupils all repaired, without any guide or leader, to a spacious music-hall, where they took their seats in an orchestra erected for that purpose, and listened with manifest delight to a voluntary on the organ, played [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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[...] two hours and a half of this odd travelling (including a stoppage at a small town, where we were saluted by a gun considerably bigger than our own chimney ), we reached Hartford, and straightway repaired to an extremely comfortable hotel: except, as usual, in the article of bedrooms, which, in almost every place we visited, were very conducive to early rising.
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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After going round the town, the procession repaired to a certain appointed place, where, as the printed programme set forth, it would be received by the children of the different free schools, ‘ singing Temperance Songs. ’ I was prevented from [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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[...] of iron railing hanging dejectedly from its top, and waving to and fro like a wild ivy branch or broken vine stem. It is of much higher importance than it may seem, that this statue should be repaired at the public cost, as it ought to have been long ago. Firstly, because it is beneath the dignity of England to allow a memorial raised in honour of one of her defenders, to remain in this [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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[...] at night, we arrived at Lebanon which is renowned for its warm baths, and for a great hotel, well adapted, I have no doubt, to the gregarious taste of those seekers after health or pleasure who repair here, but inexpressibly comfortless to me. We were shown into an immense apartment, lighted by two dim candles, called the drawing-room: from which there was a descent by a flight of steps, to [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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As nothing was to be urged in opposition to this reasonable arrangement, we requested leave to make some trifling purchases of Shaker goods; which was grimly conceded. We accordingly repaired to a store in the same house and on the opposite side of the passage, where the stock was presided over by something alive in a russet case, which the elder said was a woman; and which I suppose [...]
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