repatch

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Italic *wre-

Latin re-

Old French re-bor.

Middle English re-

English re-

English patch

English repatch

From re- + patch.

Verb

repatch (third-person singular simple present repatches, present participle repatching, simple past and past participle repatched)

1. To patch again.
   • 2009 January 11, Charles Delafuente, “Nothing but Dead Ends”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC:

     This bleak circle of asphalt has been patched and repatched, and looks it.

Anagrams

• carpeth, chapter, chaptre, patcher, pearcht, preacht