Synonyms of the word

repair

• n. The act of repairing something.
• n. The result of repairing something.
• n. The condition of something, in respect of need for repair.
• v. To restore to good working order, fix, or improve damaged condition; to mend; to remedy.
• v. To make amends for, as for an injury, by an equivalent; to indemnify for.
• n. The act of repairing or resorting to a place.
• n. A place to which one goes frequently or habitually; a haunt.
• v. To transfer oneself to another place.
• v. to pair again.

ameliorate

• v. (transitive) To make better, or improve, something perceived to be in a negative condition.

amend

• v. (transitive) To make better.
• v. (intransitive) To become better.
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To heal (someone sick); to cure (a disease etc.).
• v. (obsolete, intransitive) To be healed, to be cured, to recover (from an illness).
• v. (transitive) To make a formal alteration (in legislation, a report, etc.) by adding, deleting, or rephrasing.

animate

• adj. That which lives.
• adj. Possessing the quality or ability of motion.
• adj. Dynamic, energetic.
• adj. (grammar, of a noun or pronoun) Having a referent that includes a human or animal.
• adj. (grammar) Inflected to agree with an animate noun or pronoun.
• v. (transitive) To impart motion or the appearance of motion to.
• v. (transitive) To give spirit or vigour to; to stimulate or enliven; to inspirit.

area

• n. (mathematics) A measure of the extent of a surface; it is measured in square units.
• n. A particular geographic region.
• n. Any particular extent of surface, especially an empty or unused extent.
• n. The extent, scope, or range of an object or concept.
• n. (Britain) An open space, below ground level, between the front of a house and the pavement.
• n. (soccer) Penalty box; penalty area.
• n. (slang) Genitals.

arouse

• v. To stimulate feelings.
• v. To sexually stimulate.
• v. To wake from sleep or stupor.

better

• adj. comparative form of good: more good.
• adj. comparative form of well: more well.
• adv. comparative form of well: more well.
• adv. More, in reference to value, distance, time, etc.
• n. An entity, usually animate, deemed superior to another; one who has a claim to precedence; a superior.
• v. (transitive) To improve.
• v. (intransitive) To become better; to improve.
• v. (transitive) To surpass in excellence; to exceed; to excel.
• v. (transitive) To give advantage to; to support; to advance the interest of.
• v. (colloquial) Had better.
• n. Alternative spelling of bettor.

brace

• n. (obsolete) Armor for the arm; vambrace.
• n. (obsolete) A measurement of length, originally representing a person's outstretched arms.
• n. A curved instrument or handle of iron or wood, for holding and turning bits, etc.; a bitstock.
• n. That which holds anything tightly or supports it firmly; a bandage or a prop.
• n. A cord, ligament, or rod, for producing or maintaining tension.
• n. A thong used to regulate the tension of a drum.
• n. The state of being braced or tight; tension.
• n. Harness; warlike preparation.
• n. (typography) A curved, pointed line, also known as "curly bracket": { or } connecting two or more words…
• n. A pair, a couple; originally used of dogs, and later of animals generally and then other things, but rarely…
• n. A piece of material used to transmit, or change the direction of, weight or pressure; any one of the pieces,…
• n. (nautical) A rope reeved through a block at the end of a yard, by which the yard is moved horizontally;…
• n. (Britain, Cornwall, mining) The mouth of a shaft.
• n. (chiefly in the plural) Straps or bands to sustain trousers; suspenders.
• n. (chiefly in the plural) A system of wires, brackets, and elastic bands used to correct crooked teeth or…
• n. (soccer) Two goals scored by one player in a game.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To prepare for something bad, such as an impact or blow.
• v. To place in a position for resisting pressure; to hold firmly.
• v. (nautical) To swing round the yards of a square rigged ship, using braces, to present a more efficient…
• v. To stop someone for questioning, usually said of police.
• v. To confront with questions, demands or requests.
• v. To furnish with braces; to support; to prop.
• v. To draw tight; to tighten; to put in a state of tension; to strain; to strengthen.
• v. To bind or tie closely; to fasten tightly.

bushel

• n. A dry measure, containing four pecks, eight gallons, or thirty-two quarts.
• n. A vessel of the capacity of a bushel, used in measuring; a bushel measure.
• n. A quantity that fills a bushel measure.
• n. (colloquial) A large indefinite quantity.
• n. (Britain) The iron lining in the nave of a wheel. In the United States it is called a box.
• v. (US, tailoring, transitive, intransitive) To mend or repair clothes.

compensate

• v. To do (something good) after (something bad) happens.
• v. To pay or reward someone in exchange for work done or some other consideration.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To make up for; to do something in place of something else; to correct, satisfy;…
• v. To adjust or adapt to a change, often a harm or deprivation.

condition

• n. A logical clause or phrase that a conditional statement uses. The phrase can either be true or false.
• n. A requirement, term, or requisite.
• n. (law) A clause in a contract or agreement indicating that a certain contingency may modify the principal…
• n. The health status of a medical patient.
• n. The state or quality.
• n. A particular state of being.
• n. (obsolete) The situation of a person or persons, particularly their social and/or economic class, rank.
• v. To subject to the process of acclimation.
• v. To subject to different conditions, especially as an exercise.
• v. (transitive) To place conditions or limitations upon.
• v. To shape the behaviour of someone to do something.
• v. (transitive) To treat (the hair) with hair conditioner.
• v. (transitive) To contract; to stipulate; to agree.
• v. (transitive) To test or assay, as silk (to ascertain the proportion of moisture it contains).
• v. (US, colleges, transitive) To put under conditions; to require to pass a new examination or to make up…
• v. To impose upon an object those relations or conditions without which knowledge and thought are alleged…

correct

• adj. Free from error; true; the state of having an affirmed truth.
• adj. With good manners; well behaved; conforming with accepted standards of behaviour.
• v. (transitive) To make something that was not valid become right. To remove error.
• v. (by extension, transitive) To grade (examination papers).
• v. (transitive) To inform (someone) of the latter's error.

country

• n. (archaic) An area of land; a district, region.
• n. A set region of land having particular human occupation or agreed limits, especially inhabited by members…
• n. The territory of a nation, especially an independent nation state or formerly independent nation; a political…
• n. (usually preceded by “the”) A rural area, as opposed to a town or city; the countryside.
• n. Country music.
• n. (mining) The rock through which a vein runs.
• adj. From or in the countryside or connected with it.
• adj. Of or connected to country music.

doctor

• n. A physician; a member of the medical profession; one who is trained and licensed to heal the sick. The…
• n. A person who has attained a doctorate, such as a Ph.D. or Th.D. or one of many other terminal degrees…
• n. A veterinarian; a medical practitioner who treats animals.
• n. A nickname for a person who has special knowledge or talents to manipulate or arrange transactions.
• n. (obsolete) A teacher; one skilled in a profession or a branch of knowledge; a learned man.
• n. (dated) Any mechanical contrivance intended to remedy a difficulty or serve some purpose in an exigency.
• n. A fish, the friar skate.
• v. (transitive) To act as a medical doctor to.
• v. (intransitive, humorous) To act as a medical doctor.
• v. (transitive) To make (someone) into an (academic) doctor; to confer a doctorate upon.
• v. (transitive) To physically alter (medically or surgically) a living being in order to change growth or…
• v. (transitive) To genetically alter an extant species.
• v. (transitive) To alter or make obscure, as with the intention to deceive, especially a document.

energise

• v. Alternative form of energize.

energize

• v. To invigorate, to make energetic.
• v. To supply with energy, especially electricity. To turn on power to something.
• v. (obsolete) To use strength in action; to act or operate with force or vigor; to act in producing an effect.

fix

• n. A repair or corrective action.
• n. A difficult situation; a quandary or dilemma.
• n. (informal) A single dose of an addictive drug administered to a drug user.
• n. A prearrangement of the outcome of a supposedly competitive process, such as a sporting event, a game,…
• n. A determination of location.
• n. (US) fettlings (mixture used to line a furnace).
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To pierce; now generally replaced by transfix.
• v. (transitive) To attach; to affix; to hold in place or at a particular time.
• v. (transitive) To mend, to repair.
• v. (transitive, informal) To prepare (food).
• v. (transitive) To make (a contest, vote, or gamble) unfair; to privilege one contestant or a particular…
• v. (transitive, US, informal) To surgically render an animal, especially a pet, infertile.
• v. (transitive, mathematics, sematics) To map a (point or subset) to itself.
• v. (transitive, informal) To take revenge on, to best; to serve justice on an assumed miscreant.
• v. (transitive) To render (a photographic impression) permanent by treating with such applications as will…
• v. (transitive, chemistry, biology) To convert into a stable or available form.
• v. (intransitive) To become fixed; to settle or remain permanently; to cease from wandering; to rest.
• v. (intransitive) To become firm, so as to resist volatilization; to cease to flow or be fluid; to congeal;…

fixing

• n. The act of subverting (fixing) a vote.
• n. (Britain, usually in the plural) Something to aid attachment during construction (screws, wall plugs,…
• n. See fixings.
• v. present participle of fix.
• v. (Southern US, slang, with infinitive) Going; preparing; ready. Only used in fixing to.

fixture

• n. (law) Something that is fixed in place, especially a permanent appliance or other item of personal property…
• n. A regular patron of a place or institution.
• n. A lighting unit; a luminaire.
• n. (sports) A scheduled match.
• n. (computing, programming) A state that can be recreated, used as a baseline for running software tests.
• n. A work-holding or support device used in the manufacturing industry.
• v. (transitive) To furnish with, as, or in a fixture.
• v. (transitive, sports, Australia, New Zealand) To schedule (a match).

go

• v. To move.
• v. (intransitive, chiefly of a machine) To work or function (properly); to move or perform (as required).
• v. (intransitive) To start; to begin (an action or process).
• v. (intransitive) To take a turn, especially in a game.
• v. (intransitive) To attend.
• v. To proceed.
• v. To follow or travel along (a path).
• v. (intransitive) To extend (from one point in time or space to another).
• v. (intransitive) To lead (to a place); to give access to.
• v. (copula) To become. (The adjective that follows usually describes a negative state.).
• v. To assume the obligation or function of; to be, to serve as.
• v. (intransitive) To continuously or habitually be in a state.
• v. To come to (a certain condition or state).
• v. (intransitive) To change (from one value to another).
• v. To turn out, to result; to come to (a certain result).
• v. (intransitive) To tend (toward a result).
• v. To contribute to a (specified) end product or result.
• v. To pass, to be used up.
• v. (intransitive) To die.
• v. (intransitive) To be discarded.
• v. (intransitive, cricket) To be lost or out.
• v. To break down or apart.
• v. (intransitive) To be sold.
• v. (intransitive) To be given, especially to be assigned or allotted.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To survive or get by; to last or persist for a stated length of time.
• v. (transitive, sports) To have a certain record.
• v. To be authoritative, accepted, or valid.
• v. To say (something), to make a sound.
• v. To be expressed or composed (a certain way).
• v. (intransitive) To resort (to).
• v. To apply or subject oneself to.
• v. To fit (in a place, or together with something).
• v. (intransitive) To date.
• v. To attack.
• v. To be in general; to be usually.
• v. (transitive) To take (a particular part or share); to participate in to the extent of.
• v. (transitive) To yield or weigh.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To offer, bid or bet an amount; to pay.
• v. (transitive, colloquial) To enjoy. (Compare go for.).
• v. (intransitive, colloquial) To urinate or defecate.
• n. (uncommon) The act of going.
• n. A turn at something, or in something (e.g. a game).
• n. An attempt, a try.
• n. An approval or permission to do something, or that which has been approved.
• n. An act; the working or operation.
• n. (slang, dated) A circumstance or occurrence; an incident.
• n. (dated) The fashion or mode.
• n. (dated) Noisy merriment.
• n. (slang, archaic) A glass of spirits; a quantity of spirits.
• n. Power of going or doing; energy; vitality; perseverance.
• n. (cribbage) The situation where a player cannot play a card which will not carry the aggregate count above…
• n. A period of activity.
• n. (obsolete, British slang) A dandy; a fashionable person.
• n. (board games) A strategic board game, originally from China, in which two players (black and white) attempt…

hangout

• n. A place for hanging out; an informal meeting-place.

haunt

• v. (transitive) To inhabit, or visit frequently (most often used in reference to ghosts).
• v. (transitive) To make uneasy, restless.
• v. (transitive) To stalk, to follow.
• v. (intransitive, now rare) To live habitually; to stay, to remain.
• v. (transitive, Britain dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) To accustom; habituate; make accustomed to.
• v. (transitive, Britain dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) To practise; to devote oneself to.
• v. (intransitive) To persist in staying or visiting.
• n. A place at which one is regularly found; a hangout.
• n. (dialect) A ghost.
• n. A feeding place for animals.

improve

• v. (transitive) To make (something) better; to increase the value or productivity (of something).
• v. (intransitive) To become better.
• v. (obsolete) To disprove or make void; to refute.
• v. (obsolete) To disapprove of; to find fault with; to reprove; to censure.
• v. (dated) To use or employ to good purpose; to turn to profitable account.

improvement

• n. The act of improving; advancement or growth; a bettering.
• n. The act of making profitable use or application of anything, or the state of being profitably employed;…
• n. The state of being improved; betterment; advance.
• n. Something which is improved.
• n. Increase; growth; progress; advance.
• n. (in the plural) Valuable additions or betterments, for example buildings, clearings, drains, fences, etc…
• n. (Patent Laws): A useful addition to, or modification of, a machine, manufacture, or composition.

indemnify

• v. To secure against loss or damage; to insure.
• v. (chiefly law) To compensate or reimburse someone for some expense or injury.
• v. (obsolete, rare) to hurt, to harm.

locomote

• v. (now chiefly biology) To move or travel (from one location to another).

meliorate

• v. (transitive) To make better, to improve; to heal or solve a problem.

mend

• n. A place, as in clothing, which has been repaired by mending.
• n. The act of repairing.
• v. To repair, as anything that is torn, broken, defaced, decayed, or the like; to restore from partial decay,…
• v. To alter for the better; to set right; to reform; hence, to quicken; as, to mend one's manners or pace.
• v. To help, to advance, to further; to add to.
• v. To grow better; to advance to a better state; to become improved.

mending

• v. present participle of mend.
• n. The act by which something is mended or repaired.

move

• v. (intransitive) To change place or posture; to stir; to go, in any manner, from one place or position to…
• v. (intransitive) To act; to take action; to stir; to begin to act.
• v. (intransitive) To change residence, for example from one house, town, or state, to another; to go and…
• v. (intransitive, chess, and other games) To change the place of a piece in accordance with the rules of…
• v. (transitive, ergative) To cause to change place or posture in any manner; to set in motion; to carry,…
• v. (transitive, chess) To transfer (a piece or man) from one space or position to another, according to the…
• v. (transitive) To excite to action by the presentation of motives; to rouse by representation, persuasion,…
• v. (transitive) To arouse the feelings or passions of; especially, to excite to tenderness or compassion,…
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To propose; to recommend; specifically, to propose formally for consideration…
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To mention; to raise (a question); to suggest (a course of action); to lodge (a…
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To incite, urge (someone to do something); to solicit (someone for or of an issue);…
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To apply to, as for aid.
• v. (law, transitive, intransitive) To request an action from the court.
• n. The act of moving; a movement.
• n. An act for the attainment of an object; a step in the execution of a plan or purpose.
• n. A formalized or practiced action used in athletics, dance, physical exercise, self-defense, hand-to-hand…
• n. The event of changing one's residence.
• n. A change in strategy.
• n. A transfer, a change from one employer to another.
• n. (board games) The act of moving a token on a gameboard from one position to another according to the rules…

pay

• v. (transitive) To give money or other compensation to in exchange for goods or services.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To discharge, as a debt or other obligation, by giving or doing what is due…
• v. (transitive) To be profitable for.
• v. (transitive) To give (something else than money).
• v. (intransitive) To be profitable or worth the effort.
• v. (intransitive) To discharge an obligation or debt.
• v. (intransitive) To suffer consequences.
• n. Money given in return for work; salary or wages.
• adj. Operable or accessible on deposit of coins.
• adj. Pertaining to or requiring payment.
• v. (nautical, transitive) To cover (the bottom of a vessel, a seam, a spar, etc.) with tar or pitch, or a…

quicken

• v. (transitive, now literary) To give life to; to animate, make alive, revive.
• v. (intransitive, now literary) To come back to life, receive life.
• v. (intransitive) To take on a state of activity or vigour comparable to life; to be roused, excited.
• v. (intransitive) Of a pregnant woman: to first feel the movements of the foetus, or reach the stage of pregnancy…
• v. (transitive) To make quicker; to hasten, speed up.
• v. (intransitive) To become faster.
• v. (shipbuilding) To shorten the radius of (a curve); to make (a curve) sharper.
• n. (now chiefly Northern England) The European rowan, Sorbus aucuparia.

reanimate

• adj. Being animate again.
• v. To animate again.

recompense

• n. An equivalent returned for anything given, done, or suffered; compensation; reward; amends; requital.
• n. That which compensates for an injury, or other type of harm or damage.
• v. To reward or repay (someone) for something done, given etc.
• v. To give compensation for an injury, or other type of harm or damage.
• v. (transitive) To give (something) in return; to pay back; to pay, as something earned or deserved.

recreate

• v. (transitive) To give new life, energy or encouragement (to); to refresh, enliven.
• v. (reflexive) To enjoy or entertain oneself.
• v. (intransitive) To take recreation.
• v. To create anew.

rectify

• v. (obsolete, transitive) To heal (an organ or part of the body).
• v. (transitive) To restore (someone or something) to its proper condition; to straighten out, to set right.
• v. (transitive) To remedy or fix (an undesirable state of affairs, situation etc.).
• v. (transitive, chemistry) To purify or refine (a substance) by distillation.
• v. (transitive) To correct or amend (a mistake, defect etc.).
• v. (transitive, now rare) To correct (someone who is mistaken).
• v. (transitive, geodesy, now historical) To adjust (a globe) in order to prepare for the solution of a proposed…
• v. (transitive, electronics) To convert (alternating current) into direct current.
• v. (transitive) To produce (as factitious gin or brandy) by redistilling bad wines or strong spirits (whisky,…

remediate

• v. To correct or improve a deficiency or problem.
• adj. (rare, archaic, education) Intended to correct or improve deficient skills in some subject.

remedy

• n. Something that corrects or counteracts.
• n. (law) The legal means to recover a right or to prevent or obtain redress for a wrong.
• n. A medicine, application, or treatment that relieves or cures a disease.
• v. (transitive) To provide or serve as a remedy for.

renovate

• v. (transitive) To renew; to revamp something to make it look new again.
• v. (transitive) To restore to freshness or vigor.

reparation

• n. (usually in the plural) A payment of time, effort or money to undo past transgression(s).
• n. (archaic) The act of renewing, restoring, etc., or the state of being renewed or repaired.

resort

• n. A place where people go for recreation, especially one with facilities such as lodgings, entertainment,…
• n. Recourse, refuge (something or someone turned to for safety).
• n. (obsolete) A place where one goes habitually; a haunt.
• v. To have recourse (to), now especially from necessity or frustration.
• v. To fall back; to revert.
• v. To make one's way, go (to).
• v. to repeat a sorting process; sort again.
• n. An act of sorting again.
• n. (obsolete) Active power or movement; spring.

restore

• n. (computing) The act of recovering data or a system from a backup.
• v. (transitive) To reestablish, or bring back into existence.
• v. (transitive) To bring back to a previous condition or state.
• v. (transitive) To give or bring back (that which has been lost or taken); to bring back to the owner; to…
• v. (transitive) To give in place of, or as restitution for.
• v. (computing) To recover (data, etc.) from a backup.
• v. (obsolete) To make good; to make amends for.

revive

• v. (intransitive) To return to life; to become reanimated or reinvigorated.
• v. (transitive) To return to life; to cause to recover life or strength; to cause to live anew;.
• v. (transitive) To recover from a state of oblivion, obscurity, neglect, or depression.
• v. (transitive) To restore, or bring again to life; to reanimate.
• v. (transitive) To raise from coma, languor, depression, or discouragement; to bring into action after a…
• v. (transitive) Hence, to recover from a state of neglect or disuse; as, to revive letters or learning.
• v. To renew in the mind or memory; to bring to recollection; to recall attention to; to reawaken.
• v. (intransitive) To recover its natural or metallic state, as a metal.
• v. (transitive) To restore or reduce to its natural or metallic state.

revivify

• v. To reanimate, bring back to life.
• v. To reinvigorate or revitalize.
• v. (chemistry, now rare) To reactivate (a catalyst, reagent etc.).

right

• adj. (archaic) Straight, not bent.
• adj. Of an angle, having a size of 90 degrees, or one quarter of a complete rotation; the angle between two…
• adj. Complying with justice, correctness or reason; correct, just, true.
• adj. Appropriate, perfectly suitable; fit for purpose.
• adj. Healthy, sane, competent.
• adj. Real; veritable.
• adj. (Australia) All right; not requiring assistance.
• adj. (dated) Most favourable or convenient; fortunate.
• adj. Designating the side of the body which is positioned to the east if one is facing north. This arrow points…
• adj. Designed to be placed or worn outward.
• adj. (politics) Pertaining to the political right; conservative.
• adv. On the right side.
• adv. Towards the right side.
• interj. Yes, that is correct; I agree.
• interj. I agree with whatever you say; I have no opinion.
• interj. Signpost word to change the subject in a discussion or discourse.
• interj. Used to check agreement at the end of an utterance.
• interj. Used to add seriousness or decisiveness before a statement.
• n. That which complies with justice, law or reason.
• n. A legal or moral entitlement.
• n. The right side or direction.
• n. The right hand.
• n. (politics) The ensemble of right-wing political parties; political conservatives as a group.
• n. The outward or most finished surface, as of a piece of cloth, a carpet, etc.
• v. To correct.
• v. To set upright.
• v. (intransitive) To return to normal upright position.
• v. To do justice to; to relieve from wrong; to restore rights to; to assert or regain the rights of.
• adv. Exactly, precisely.
• adv. Immediately, directly.
• adv. (Britain, US, dialect) Very, extremely, quite.
• adv. According to fact or truth; actually; truly; really.
• adv. In a correct manner.
• adv. (dated, still used in some titles) To a great extent or degree.

status

• n. A person’s condition, position or standing relative to that of others.
• n. Prestige or high standing.
• n. A situation or state of affairs.
• n. (law) The legal condition of a person or thing.
• n. (social networking) A function of some instant messaging applications, whereby a user may post a message…

stimulate

• v. To encourage into action.
• v. To arouse an organism to functional activity.

travel

• v. (intransitive) To be on a journey, often for pleasure or business and with luggage; to go from one place…
• v. (intransitive) To pass from here to there; to move or transmit; to go from one place to another.
• v. (intransitive, basketball) To move illegally by walking or running without dribbling the ball.
• v. (transitive) To travel throughout (a place).
• v. (transitive) To force to journey.
• v. (obsolete) To labour; to travail.
• n. The act of traveling.
• n. pl A series of journeys.
• n. pl An account of one's travels.
• n. The activity or traffic along a route or through a given point.
• n. The working motion of a piece of machinery; the length of a mechanical stroke.
• n. (obsolete) Labour; parturition; travail.

vivify

• v. To bring to life.
• v. To impart vitality.