bushel

1. 1.

   restore by replacing a part or putting together what is torn or broken

   “She repaired her TV set”

   “Repair my shoes please”

   Synonymsrepairmendfixdoctorfurbish uprestoretouch on

   Broaderbetter

   Narrowertinkerfillpiececobblepointtrouble-shootpatchsolevampheel

Other forms of bushel

plural

bushels·

past tense or participle

bushelled

present participle

bushelling

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about bushel

What does bushel mean?

bushel means "a United States dry measure equal to 4 pecks or 2152.42 cubic inches". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in bushel?

bushel has 2 syllables: bus-hel. The stress falls on "bus". In IPA it is /ˈbʊʃəl/.

What is another word for bushel?

Close synonyms include repair, mend, fix, doctor, furbish up. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is bushel a common word?

bushel is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.