to repair
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8.8
- 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?
- How do we get to repair to the place where it is repaired?
Examples
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Shall we repair, Jim?
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And, presently, when you have drawn the number, repair to the senate.
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Then repair to the court.
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Let us repair to the main chamber.
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Well, might I suggest we repair ourselves to a quieter place.
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We'll repair to more comfortable environs.
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Let us repair to the living room for some goodbyes and some coffee and some traveling music, shall we?
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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
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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.