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unrepair

unrepair noun: an unsound state, as that of a building; dilapidation.

Noun

unrepair (uncountable)

  1. An unsound state, as that of a building; dilapidation.

Verb

unrepair (third-person singular simple present unrepairs, present participle unrepairing, simple past and past participle unrepaired)

  1. (ambitransitive, rare) To reverse the process of repairing.
    • I clicked the font repair in the TweakUI program expecting to see a dialogue box, instead it "repaired" my fonts. Now everytime^([sic]) I use a program and change the font it takes forever to load them. Any Ideas^([sic]) on how to unRepair^([sic]) the fonts. :)1997 February 9, John Hickman, “Tweak font repair Help with Unrepair^([sic]) :)”, in comp.os.ms-windows.apps.utilities.win95 (Usenet)
    • I am now convinced that all of this was caused by the WinDoctor module in NU3 which "fixed" my windows^([sic]) setup in a way that corrupted it beyond repair. […] I think you need to take a serious look into how the WinDoctor works or, as a minimum, develop some way to "unrepair" the system if the...1998 June 20, Vernon Balbert [Symantec], quoting Bill Colton, “WinDoctor Malpractice? Warning!”, in symantec.support.win95.nortonutilities.general (Usenet)

Examples of unrepair in a sentence

  • I told him to unrepair again and threw out the tv.2002 August 5, Yoon Min Cho, “Are dvd^([sic]) players common in Poland?”, in pl.rec.film (Usenet):
  • You have one skill to create/repair (both handled by the Craft skill), I'd allow Craft to "unrepair effectively", too.2003 October 31, Ian R. Malcomson, “Disable Device”, in rec.games.frp.dnd (Usenet):

Forms of unrepair

third-person singular presentunrepairs
present participleunrepairing
past participleunrepaired
pastunrepaired

Origin of unrepair

From un- (“lack of”) + repair (noun).

From un- (reversive prefix) + repair (verb).

Questions about unrepair

What does unrepair mean?
Unrepair means an unsound state, as that of a building; dilapidation.
How do you use unrepair in a sentence?
I told him to unrepair again and threw out the tv.
What part of speech is unrepair?
Unrepair can be a noun or a verb.

Words near unrepair in the dictionary

  1. unreorganized
  2. unrep
  3. unrepackaged
  4. unrepaid
  5. unrepainted
  6. unrepair
  7. unrepairable
  8. unrepairably
  9. unrepaired
  10. unrepairing
  11. unrepairs

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