Repair
Part of speech: noun
Definition: The act of repairing something. The result of repairing something. The condition of something, in respect of need for repair. An act of going on vacation. A place to which one goes frequently or habitually; a haunt.
Part of speech: verb
Definition: To restore to good working order, fix, or improve damaged condition; to mend; to remedy. To transfer oneself to another place.
Example sentence: Synthetic biology can help address key challenges facing the planet and its population. Research in synthetic biology may lead to new things such as programmed cells that self-assemble at the sites of disease to repair damage.
Mending
Part of speech: verb
Definition: To repair, as anything that is torn, broken, defaced, decayed, or the like; to restore from partial decay, injury, or defacement.
Example sentence: It was an instinct to put the world in order that powered her mending split infinitives and snipping off dangling participles, smoothing away the knots and bumps until the prose before her took on a sheen, like perfect caramel.