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repair | rehabilitation |

As nouns the difference between repair and rehabilitation

is that repair is the act of repairing something or repair can be the act of repairing or resorting to a place while rehabilitation is rehabilitation.

As a verb repair

is to restore to good working order, fix, or improve damaged condition; to mend; to remedy or repair can be to transfer oneself to another place or repair can be to pair again.

repair

English

Etymology 1

Coined between 1300 and 1350 from (etyl) .

Noun

(en noun)
  • The act of repairing something.
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  • The result of repairing something.
  • The condition of something, in respect of need for repair.
    • Derived terms
    * disrepair
    Related terms
    * reparation

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To restore to good working order, fix, or improve damaged condition; to mend; to remedy.
    • to repair a house, a road, a shoe, or a ship
    to repair a shattered fortune
  • * Milton
    • secret refreshings that repair his strength
  • * Wordsworth
    • Do thou, as thou art wont, repair / My heart with gladness.
  • To make amends for, as for an injury, by an equivalent; to indemnify for.
    • to repair a loss or damage
  • * Shakespeare
    • I'll repair the misery thou dost bear.
    Synonyms
    * See also
    Derived terms
    * repairable / reparable, repairer

    Etymology 2

    (etyl) . Cognate to repatriate.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of repairing or resorting to a place.
    • our annual repair to the mountains
  • * Clarendon
    • The king sent a proclamation for their repair to their houses.
  • A place to which one goes frequently or habitually; a haunt.
  • * Dryden
    • There the fierce winds his tender force assail / And beat him downward to his first repair .

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To transfer oneself to another place.
  • :
  • *(Alexander Pope) (1688-1744)
  • *:Go, mount the winds, and to the shades repair .
  • *1850 , , (Jane Eyre)
  • *:I heard the visitors repair to their chambers.
  • *
  • *:That finished, I repaired to my room, one flight up, and, after a thorough wash, seated myself, pipe in mouth, at the little window that opened on the Rue Garde. I had nothing more exciting on hand than to wait for word from Von Lindowe. I sincerely hoped that it would not be long, for it is not my forte to sit twiddling my thumbs.
    • Derived terms
    * repatriate

    Etymology 3

    From .

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • to pair again

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    rehabilitation

    English

    Noun

  • The process of rehabilitating something.
  • * August 16 2014 , Daniel Taylor, " Swansea upstage Manchester United in Louis van Gaal’s Premier League bow," guardian.co.uk :
    • Maybe now it should be clearer why Louis van Gaal has been telling anyone who cares to listen they should not be surprised if Manchester United’s rehabilitation takes longer than they would ideally like.

    See also

    * rehab