<p><strong>Verb (used with object)</strong></p><ul><li>to restore to a good or sound condition after decay or damage; mend: to repair a motor.</li><li>Synonyms: renovate, remodel, fix</li><li>Antonyms: destroy, break</li><li>to restore or renew by any process of making good, strengthening, etc.: to repair one's health by resting.</li><li>Synonyms: amend, rejuvenate, renew</li><li>to remedy; make good; put right: to repair damage; to repair a deficiency.</li><li>Synonyms: recoup, retrieve</li><li>to make amends for; compensate: to repair a wrong done.</li><li>Synonyms: redress</li></ul><p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>an act, process, or work of repairing: to order the repair of a building.</li><li>Usually repairs.</li><li>an instance or operation of repairing: to lay up a boat for repairs.</li><li>a repaired part or an addition made in repairing: Seventeenth-century repairs in brick are conspicuous in parts of the medieval stonework.</li><li>repairs, (in bookkeeping, accounting, etc.) the part of maintenance expense that has been paid out to keep fixed assets in usable condition, as distinguished from amounts used for renewal or replacement.</li><li>the good condition resulting from continued maintenance and repairing: to keep in repair.</li><li>condition with respect to soundness and usability: a house in good repair.</li></ul>