| VERB | change | furbish up, repair, mend, fix, bushel, doctor, restore, touch on | restore by replacing a part or putting together what is torn / torn or broken |
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| Meaning | restore by replacing a part or putting together what is torn / torn or broken. | |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s something | |
| Synonyms | repair, mend, fix, bushel, doctor, restore, touch on | |
| Entailed by | overhaul, modernize, modernise | make repairs, renovations, revisions or adjustments to |
| Narrower | cobble | repair or mend |
| darn | repair by sewing | |
| fill | plug with a substance | |
| heel, reheel | put a new heel on | |
| patch, patch up | mend by putting a patch on | |
| piece, patch | repair by adding pieces | |
| point, repoint | repair the joints of bricks | |
| sole, resole | put a new sole on | |
| tinker, fiddle | try to fix or mend | |
| trouble-shoot, troubleshoot | solve problems | |
| vamp, revamp | Provide (a shoe) with a new vamp | |
| Broader | better, improve, amend, ameliorate, meliorate | To make better |
| Opposite | break, bust | ruin completely |
| Spanish | arreglar, atender, componer, recomponer, reparar, restaurar, restituir | |
| Catalan | adobar, apariar, arreglar, atendre, reparar, restituir | |
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