🛠️ Fixing something 🛠️ To fix 🤝 To make better 🏚️ Condition 🚶 To go (formal)

to repair

5 8.8

To go to a place for a special reason

verb
/rɪˈpɛr/

Archaic

: retirarse a

Come, let us repair to the bar across the street.

How do we get to repair to the place where it is repaired?

Examples

Shall we repair, Jim?

Fun with Dick and Jane (1977)
And, presently, when you have drawn the number, repair to the senate.

Coriolanus (2011)
Then repair to the court.

The Court Jester (1955)
Let us repair to the main chamber.

Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery (1997)
Well, might I suggest we repair ourselves to a quieter place.

Fletch Lives (1989)
We'll repair to more comfortable environs.

Batman: Mask of the Phantasm (1993)
Let us repair to the living room for some goodbyes and some coffee and some traveling music, shall we?

De-Lovely (2004)
We repaired to the auditorium, and the poet read.

Academic text (2007)
The Comanches and the Kiowas had not yielded to the army's insistence that they repair to the reservation.

Fiction book (1997)
Let us repair to the garden for some fresh air.

Compounds

repair shop

22 2.1

A place that fixes things like cars or home appliances

bike repair

1 2.3

Work to fix and take care of bicycles

repair shed

1 4.1

A large airport building where planes are kept and fixed

toolkit for emergency repair

3.5

A set of tools kept to fix sudden problems

How Fast

sprint

44 2.1

to hurry

∞ 1.0

to repair

Archaic

5 8.8

to walk

∞ 1.0

to stroll

118 1.8

crawl

4 1.2

Surface Forms

repair infinitive

repaired past

repaired past participle

repairing present participle

repairs third person singular

Etymology

Repair was also used long ago to mean 'go to' or 'return to' a place, and a helpful way to remember this old use is to think of someone 'repairing to the drawing room' as simply 'going to' that room.