American English pronunciation
How to pronounce repairing
IPA transcription: [ɹɪ'pɛɹɪŋ]
Pronunciation variants: [ɹɪ'pɛɹɪŋ][ɹi'pɛɹɪŋ]
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Verb
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restore by replacing a part or putting together what is torn or broken
“She repaired her TV set”
“Repair my shoes please”
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give new life or energy to
“A hot soup will revive me”
“This will renovate my spirits”
“This treatment repaired my health”
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set straight or right
“remedy these deficiencies”
“rectify the inequities in salaries”
“repair an oversight”
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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”
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move, travel, or proceed toward some place
“He repaired to his cabin in the woods”
Usage examples
- A man sitting at a desk, repairing antique typewriters.
- Fishermen repairing their fish nets.
- I'm having difficulty repairing the router.
- During the Great Depression he supplemented his income from music by repairing radios.
- A man and a woman repairing something.
- A african descent male is repairing the clothes using his sewing machine
- When hostilities ended, "Ellet" was repairing at Mare Island.
- He loves fishing and repairing older vehicles.
- The workshop was initially for repairing locomotives, and assembling new ones from salvaged parts.
- Apart from repairing the building, many pinnacles over the nave and towers were completed.