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Repair Damaged Working Mend Repaired Properly Repairing Damage

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If you r_____ something that has been damaged or is not working properly, you mend it.If you repair something that has been damaged or is not working properly, you mend it.
Goldsmith has repaired the roof to ensure the house is wind-proof.
The cost of repairing earthquake damage could be more than seven-thousand-million dollars.
A woman drove her car to the garage to have it repaired.
...TV repairers.
word repair
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verb
If you repair something that has been damaged or is not working properly, you mend it.
Goldsmith has repaired the roof to ensure the house is wind-proof.
The cost of repairing earthquake damage could be more than seven-thousand-million dollars.
A woman drove her car to the garage to have it repaired.
...TV repairers.
If you repair a relationship or someone's reputation after it has been damaged, you do something to improve it.
The government continued to try to repair the damage caused by the minister's interview.
The first and most important thing was to repair my relationship with my father.
If someone repairs to a particular place, they go there.
We then repaired to the pavilion for lunch.
noun
A repair is something that you do to mend a machine, building, piece of clothing, or other thing that has been damaged or is not working properly.
Many people don't know how to carry out repairs on their cars.
Many of the buildings are in need of repair.
There is no doubt now that her relationship is beyond repair.
inflections repairsrepairingrepairedrepairerrepairers
cefr-level A2

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