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{
"term": "repair",
"partOfSpeech": "verb",
"ox3000": true,
"cefr": "a2",
"verbForms": {
"presentSimple": {
"iYouWeThey": "repair",
"heSheIt": "repairs"
},
"pastSimple": "repaired",
"pastParticiple": "repaired",
"ingForm": "repairing"
},
"definitions": [
{
"senseNumber": 1,
"definition": "to fix something that is broken, damaged or torn",
"sensetop": "repair something",
"cefr": "a2",
"ox3000": true,
"examples": [
{
"text": "to repair a car/television"
},
{
"text": "to repair a road/wall/building/bridge"
},
{
"text": "to repair a hole/crack/leak"
},
{
"text": "to repair an injury/a hernia/a tear/a defect"
},
{
"text": "to repair a ligament/tendon/cartilage"
},
{
"text": "He has had surgery to **repair the damage**."
},
{
"text": "His surgically repaired knee is bothering him."
},
{
"text": "It's almost 15 years old. It isn't worth **having it repaired**."
},
{
"text": "We need to get the roof repaired."
},
{
"text": "the budget for maintaining and repairing equipment"
},
{
"text": "The human body has an amazing capacity to repair itself."
},
{
"text": "I'm having my car repaired next week."
},
{
"text": "Most of the damage has now been successfully repaired."
},
{
"text": "Natural vitamins in the shampoo will help repair damaged hair."
},
{
"text": "They estimate the cost of repairing the damaged roads at £1 million."
},
{
"text": "Are you going to get the television repaired?"
},
{
"text": "The builders agreed to repair the structural defects."
},
{
"text": "The damage to the ship had been repaired."
},
{
"text": "We'll need to get someone to repair the roof."
}
],
"topics": ["Transport by car or lorry"],
"collocations": {
"adverb": ["properly", "successfully", "poorly"],
"verb + repair": ["try to", "help (to)"],
"phrases": [
"the cost of repairing something",
"have something repaired",
"surgically repaired"
]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": 2,
"definition": "to say or do something in order to improve a bad or unpleasant situation",
"sensetop": "repair something",
"cefr": "b1",
"ox3000": true,
"examples": [
{
"text": "to repair relations/a relationship"
},
{
"text": "It was too late to **repair the damage** done to their relationship."
},
{
"text": "The home team did well to repair a bad start."
},
{
"text": "They moved quickly to repair relations between themselves and the US."
}
],
"synonyms": "right (5)"
}
],
"pronunciations": {
"uk": [
{
"pronunciation": "/rɪˈpeə(r)/",
"audio": "re/repair/repair__gb_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/rɪˈpeəz/",
"audio": "re/repair/repairs__gb_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/rɪˈpeəd/",
"audio": "re/repair/repaired__gb_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/rɪˈpeərɪŋ/",
"audio": "re/repair/repairing__gb_1.mp3"
}
],
"us": [
{
"pronunciation": "/rɪˈper/",
"audio": "re/repair/repair__us_7.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/rɪˈperz/",
"audio": "re/repair/repairs__us_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/rɪˈperd/",
"audio": "re/repair/repaired__us_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/rɪˈperɪŋ/",
"audio": "re/repair/repairing__us_1.mp3"
}
]
},
"wordOrigin": "late Middle English: from Old French reparer, from Latin reparare, from re- ‘back’ + parare ‘make ready’."
}