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- [ri-pair]
- /rɪˈpɛər/
- /rɪˈpeər/
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- US Pronunciation
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- [ri-pair]
- /rɪˈpɛər/
Definitions of repaired word
- verb with object repaired to restore to a good or sound condition after decay or damage; mend: to repair a motor. 1
- verb with object repaired to restore or renew by any process of making good, strengthening, etc.: to repair one's health by resting. 1
- verb with object repaired to remedy; make good; make up for: to repair damage; to repair a deficiency. 1
- verb with object repaired to make amends for; compensate: to repair a wrong done. 1
- noun repaired a resort or haunt. 1
- noun repaired the act of going or going customarily; resort: to have repair to the country. 1
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Origin of repaired
First appearance:
before 1300 One of the 15% oldest English words
1300-50; Middle English repairen < Middle French reparer < Latin reparāre, equivalent to re- re- + parāre to prepare; see pare
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Parts of speech for Repaired
noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
repaired popularity
A common word. It’s meaning is known to most children of preschool age. About 97% of English native speakers know the meaning and use the word.
Most Europeans know this English word. The frequency of it’s usage is somewhere between "mom" and "screwdriver".
repaired usage trend in Literature
This diagram is provided by Google Ngram ViewerSynonyms for repaired
adj repaired
adjective repaired
verb repaired
- atoned — to make amends or reparation, as for an offense or a crime, or for an offender (usually followed by for): to atone for one's sins.
- counterchecked — Simple past tense and past participle of countercheck.
- cruised — Simple past tense and past participle of cruise.
- debugged — to detect and remove defects or errors from.
- gentrified — very or excessively refined or elegant.
Antonyms for repaired
adj repaired
- beat-up — Informal. dilapidated; in poor condition from use: a beat-up old jalopy.
- beggared — a person who begs alms or lives by begging.
- broken — Broken is the past participle of break.
- damaged — injury or harm that reduces value or usefulness: The storm did considerable damage to the crops.
- destroyed — to reduce (an object) to useless fragments, a useless form, or remains, as by rending, burning, or dissolving; injure beyond repair or renewal; demolish; ruin; annihilate.
verb repaired
- consumed — If you are consumed with a feeling or idea, it affects you very strongly indeed.
- defaced — having had the surface, legibility, or appearance spoiled or marred
- destructed — serving or designed to destroy: a destruct mechanism on a missile.
- disenabled — Simple past tense and past participle of disenable.
- disfeatured — Simple past tense and past participle of disfeature.
adjective repaired
- jerrybuilt — Of or pertaining to a shoddily built structure.
- juiced — intoxicated from alcohol; drunk: When arrested he was definitely juiced.
- junked — Simple past tense and past participle of junk.
- wrecked — any building, structure, or thing reduced to a state of ruin.
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