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DISREPAIR
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Dictionary entry overview: What does disrepair mean?
• DISREPAIR (noun)
The noun DISREPAIR has 1 sense:
1. in need of repairs
Familiarity information: DISREPAIR used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
In need of repairs
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("disrepair" is a kind of...):
unsoundness (a condition of damage or decay)
Context examples
It was an old, tumbledown building in a crazy state of disrepair.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
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