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repay
English
Etymology
From Old French repaier (“to pay back”) (compare French repayer (“to pay again”)).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?i?pe?/
- Rhymes: -e?
Verb
repay (third-person singular simple present repays, present participle repaying, simple past and past participle repaid)
- To pay back.
Translations
Anagrams
- Payer, Peary, apery, payer, peary, praye, rapey
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repair
English
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /???p??/
- (US) IPA(key): /???p??/, /???p??/
- Rhymes: -??(r)
Etymology 1
Coined between 1300 and 1350 from Middle English repairen, from Middle French reparer, from Latin repar? (“renew, repair”).
Verb
repair (third-person singular simple present repairs, present participle repairing, simple past and past participle repaired)
- To restore to good working order, fix, or improve damaged condition; to mend; to remedy.
- To make amends for, as for an injury, by an equivalent; to indemnify for.
Synonyms
- See also Thesaurus:repair
Derived terms
- repairable, reparable
- repairer
Translations
Noun
repair (countable and uncountable, plural repairs)
- The act of repairing something.
- The result of repairing something.
- The condition of something, in respect of need for repair.
Derived terms
- disrepair
Related terms
- reparation
- reparative
Translations
Etymology 2
From Middle English repairen (“to return”), from Old French repairier, from Late Latin repatriare (“to return to one's country”), from re- + patria (“homeland”). Cognate to repatriate.
Noun
repair (plural repairs)
- The act of repairing or resorting to a place.
- A place to which one goes frequently or habitually; a haunt.
- There the fierce winds his tender force assail / And beat him downward to his first repair.
Translations
Verb
repair (third-person singular simple present repairs, present participle repairing, simple past and past participle repaired)
- To transfer oneself to another place.
Derived terms
- repatriate
Translations
Etymology 3
From re- +? pair.
Verb
repair (third-person singular simple present repairs, present participle repairing, simple past and past participle repaired)
- to pair again
Further reading
- repair in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- repair in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- “repair” in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
- “repair”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 4th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin, 2000, ?ISBN
Anagrams
- Rapier, pairer, rapier
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