out of repair

  • 1Repair — Re*pair , n. 1. Restoration to a sound or good state after decay, waste, injury, or partial restruction; supply of loss; reparation; as, materials are collected for the repair of a church or of a city. [1913 Webster] Sunk down and sought repair… …

    The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • 2out of order — Synonyms and related words: amiss, askew, awry, bad, broken, cockeyed, convulsed, deranged, disarranged, discomfited, discomposed, disconcerted, dislocated, disordered, disorderly, disorganized, disruptive, disturbed, functionless, haywire,… …

    Moby Thesaurus

  • 3out of whack — Synonyms and related words: amiss, antagonistic, antipathetic, askew, at cross purposes, at loggerheads, at odds, at variance, at war, awry, broken, clashing, cockeyed, contradictory, contrary, convulsed, cranky, cross, deranged, differing,… …

    Moby Thesaurus

  • 4out of commission — Synonyms and related words: at a standstill, at anchor, broken, dead still, fixed, haywire, hors de combat, idle, immobile, immotive, in condition, in disrepair, in order, in repair, inoperative, motionless, moveless, obsolete, off the field, on… …

    Moby Thesaurus

  • 5out of kilter — Synonyms and related words: amiss, askew, awry, broken, cockeyed, convulsed, deranged, disarranged, discomfited, discomposed, disconcerted, dislocated, disordered, disorderly, disorganized, disturbed, haywire, in condition, in disorder, in… …

    Moby Thesaurus

  • 6out of joint — Synonyms and related words: amiss, askew, awry, broken, cockeyed, convulsed, deranged, disarranged, discomfited, discomposed, disconcerted, disjointed, dislocated, disordered, disorderly, disorganized, displaced, disturbed, haywire, ill adapted,… …

    Moby Thesaurus

  • 7out o' fettle — Cleveland Dialect List out of repair; out of health …

    English dialects glossary

  • 8repair — I noun adjustment, alteration, amelioration, betterment, correction, cure, fixing, improvement, melioration, mending, overhaul, patching, reanimation, reassembling, reconditioning, reconstruction, recovery, rectification, redintegration,… …

    Law dictionary

  • 9out of kilter — {adj. phr.}, {informal} 1. Not balanced right; not in a straight line or lined up right. * /The scale must be out of kilter because when I weighed myself on it, it said 300 pounds./ * /The wheels of my bicycle were out of kilter after it hit the… …

    Dictionary of American idioms

  • 10out of kilter — {adj. phr.}, {informal} 1. Not balanced right; not in a straight line or lined up right. * /The scale must be out of kilter because when I weighed myself on it, it said 300 pounds./ * /The wheels of my bicycle were out of kilter after it hit the… …

    Dictionary of American idioms