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Synonyms for repair
Synonyms for repair: doctor and remedy. Every one of them is a hand audited pair from the Synonym Stack word bank, shown below in the sense it fits, in a real sentence, and beside the words that only look close.
The 2 synonyms for repair
- doctorverb, in the sense "restore by replacing a part or putting together what is torn or broken"
- remedyverb, in the sense "set straight or right"
Each of these belongs to a different sense of repair, which is why the meaning beside them changes down the list.
restore by replacing a part or putting together what is torn or broken
Repair my shoes please.
The true synonym
doctor
Same sentence, swapped: Doctor my shoes please.
Close but different
Wrong tiles, chosen to be tempting rather than absurd. The reason line above takes the nearest one apart; the rest fail the same sentence for their own reasons.
- resort
- compensate
- break
set straight or right
Repair an oversight.
The true synonym
remedy
Same sentence, swapped: Remedy an oversight.
Close but different
These three are the other tiles the game puts on screen for this sense, and the note above says why the closest of them fails. None is a synonym for repair in the sentence quoted.
- resort
- recreate
- debug
Where repair turns up in the game
repair is the word under test in two puzzles, spread across Tier 2, Treeline. It also sits on the board as one of the three wrong tiles in six other puzzles, where the answer is a different word entirely.
4 of the 6 puzzles where repair is the trap
- fixnoun, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is location, in the sense "a determination of the place where something is", and repair is one of the three tiles that lose.
- lendverb, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is loan, in the sense "to give something to someone temporarily, expecting it back", and repair is one of the three tiles that lose.
- calibrateverb, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is regulate, in the sense "to adjust an instrument or process precisely for accuracy", and repair is on the board beside it.
- polishnoun, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is finish, in the sense "a highly developed state of perfection", and repair is one of the three tiles that lose.
Play repair
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so repair reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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Neighbours by theme before neighbours by difficulty, because change is the company repair keeps.
A reason under every answer, not just a right answer
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. repair carries 2 written reason lines, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.