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1. Restore by replacing a part or putting together what is torn or broken
   "She repaired her TV set"; "Repair my shoes please";
   - mend, fix, bushel [US], doctor [informal], furbish up, restore, touch on
    
2. Make amends for; pay compensation for
   "One can never fully repair the suffering and losses of the Jews in the Third Reich";
   - compensate, recompense, indemnify
    
3. Move, travel, or proceed toward some place
   "He repaired to his cabin in the woods";
   - resort
    
4. Set straight or right
   "repair an oversight";
   - rectify, remediate, remedy, amend
    
5. Give new life or energy to
   "This treatment repaired my health";
   - animate, recreate, reanimate, revive, renovate, quicken, vivify, revivify

1. The act of putting something in working order again
   - fix, fixing, fixture, mend, mending, reparation
    
2. A formal way of referring to the condition of something
   "the building was in good repair"
    
3. A frequently visited place
   - haunt, hangout [informal], resort, stamping ground [informal], stomping ground [N. Amer]

Derived forms: repairs, repairing, repaired

Type of: ameliorate, amend, area, arouse, better, brace, condition, correct, country, energise [Brit], energize, go, improve, improvement, locomote, meliorate, mend, move, pay, perk up, rectify, right, status, stimulate, travel

Encyclopedia: Repair