Klryz
Pronunciation guide: IPA symbols, stress and word endings

Vowels

iːseeɪsite / ɛbedæcat
ɑːfatherɒhot (UK)ɔːlawʊput
uːtooʌcupɜːbirdəabout
eɪdayaɪmyɔɪboyaʊnow
əʊ / oʊgo (UK / US)ɪəneareəhairʊətour

Consonants that look unusual

θthinðthisʃsheʒmeasure
tʃchurchdʒjudgeŋsingjyes

p b t d k g f v s z h m n l r w sound as in ordinary English spelling.

Marks

  • ˈ main stress, before the stressed syllable: /ˈwɔːtə/ water · ˌ lighter (secondary) stress: /ˌʌndəˈstænd/ understand
  • ː a long vowel · (r) an r said only in accents that pronounce it (most American, Scottish, Irish)

Common word endings

  • -s / -es (plurals; he/she form of verbs): /s/ after voiceless sounds (cats), /z/ after voiced (dogs), /ɪz/ after s, z, sh, ch, j sounds (buses, watches). Spelling: -es after s, x, z, ch, sh; consonant + y → -ies (city → cities).
  • -ed (past): /t/ after voiceless sounds (walked), /d/ after voiced (played), /ɪd/ after t or d (wanted). Spelling: love → loved, stop → stopped, carry → carried.
  • -ing: make → making, run → running, see → seeing.
  • Irregular: go, went, gone · be, was, been · see, saw, seen · man → men · child → children · mouse → mice.
  • Older (King James) forms: -eth = -s (he loveth = he loves) · -est with “thou” (thou lovest) · spake = spoke.

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repair

UK /ɹɪˈpɛə/ · US /ˈɹiːpɛɚ/ verb, noun

Forms repairs repairing repaired repairest repairedst repaireth re-pair

  1. verb To restore to good working order, fix, or improve damaged condition; to mend; to remedy. “to repair a house, a road, a shoe, a ship”
  2. verb To make amends for, as for an injury, by an equivalent; to indemnify for. “to repair a loss or damage”
  3. noun The act of repairing something. “I took the car to the workshop for repair.”
  4. noun (linguistics, communication) An act of correcting ("repairing") a mistake in communication.
  5. noun The result of repairing something. “If you look closely you can see the repair in the paintwork.”
  6. noun The condition of something, in respect of need for repair. “The car was overall in poor repair before the accident. But after the workshop had it for three weeks it was returned in excellent repair. But the other vehicle was beyond repair.”
  7. noun The act of repairing or resorting to a place. “our annual repair to the mountains”
  8. noun A place to which one goes frequently or habitually; a haunt.
  9. verb To transfer oneself to another place. “to repair to sanctuary for safety”
  10. verb To pair again. “Please try to repair the two earbuds to each other. Place both earbuds back into the charging case, wait for four seconds, then open it and see if they have been repaired with one another.”

Synonyms

amend correct fix fix up furbish retrieve make whole mend patch put to rights rectify recondition reform refurbish remediate remedy renew renovate restore restrive fixing fixture mending reparation haunt hangout resort stamping ground bushel doctor

Antonyms

aggravate break damage hurt make matters worse

Etymology

Coined between 1300 and 1350 from Middle English repairen, from Middle French reparer, from Latin reparō (“renew, repair”).

From Middle English repairen (“to return”), from Old French repairier, from Late Latin repatriare (“to return to one's country”), from re- + patria (“homeland”). Cognate to repatriate.

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To return. [Obs.]
  2. verb To go; to betake one's self; to resort; ass, to repair to sanctuary for safety. Chaucer.
  3. noun The act of repairing or resorting to a place. [R.] Chaucer.
  4. noun Place to which one repairs; a haunt; a resort. [R.]

Etymology [OE. repairen, OF. repairier to return, fr. L. repatriare to return to one's contry, to go home again; pref. re- re- + patria native country, fr. pater father. See Father, and cf. Repatriate.]

Etymology [OF. repaire retreat, asylum, abode. See Repair to go.]

Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “repair”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details

Sanskrit

Sanskrit dictionary entries whose meaning includes “repair” (best matches first).