unfix
Americanverb (used with object)
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to render no longer fixed; unfasten; detach; loosen; free.
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to unsettle, as the mind, traditions, or habits.
verb
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to unfasten, detach, or loosen
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to unsettle or disturb
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Etymology
Origin of unfix
Example Sentences
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It’s kind of like when you are staring at something and you unfix your eyes, and your body relaxes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 2026
She was home from boarding school for the summer, and day after day the sun rose into a cloudless sky, from which Jane couldn’t unfix the word “cerulean,” which she’d learned in the art room.
From The New Yorker ● Jul. 2, 2012
This gentleman, becoming transfixed at the same moment as his lady-mother, could not by any means unfix himself again, but stood stiffly staring at the whole composition with Miss Fanny in the Foreground.
From Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens
Nothing could now unfix his gaze from the little ring of metal with its black interior.
From The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce — Volume 2: In the Midst of Life: Tales of Soldiers and Civilians by Ambrose Bierce
What mattered that his single arm could not lift the treasure he had found; what mattered that to unfix those glittering stars would still tax both skill and patience!
From Frontier Stories by Bret Harte
If the federal government were the only entity who could file these claims, then every small hotel chain with a broken ramp might go unfixed.
From Slate ● May 19, 2026
About 154,000 vehicles—roughly 37%—affected by the Kia recall remain unfixed, according to the latest records that automakers must file with NHTSA.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 8, 2025
Even though the National Park Service requested a patch, the report said, the room was still in service months later with the unfixed leak.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 12, 2024
The incident was not serious but if left unfixed could have been "pretty dangerous", an aviation expert said.
From BBC ● Jan. 13, 2024
Their union was leached of passion, but there was a new passion, outside of themselves, that united them in an intimacy they had never had before, an unfixed, unspoken, intuitive intimacy: Barack Obama.
From "Americanah" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Most brokerage houses, while technically unfixing their rates, still charge about the same fees as before on small trades on a take-it-or-leave-it basis.
From Time Magazine Archive
Something has been fixed at last, and I most certainly shall not consent to any further unfixing.
From Ayala's Angel by Anthony Trollope
Everything is fixed, and there is no unfixing.
From Mary Cary "Frequently Martha" by Kate Langley Bosher
By this time some fifty officers and blue-jackets were about the roof and ledge, some discussing, others unfixing lanterns and festoons, with shouted directions.
From The Lord of the Sea by M. P. (Matthew Phipps) Shiel
A few moments were suffered to elapse: and then, unfixing the haulser from the stem, and bringing it aft to the stern, we commenced hauling.
From My Schools and Schoolmasters or The Story of my Education. by Hugh Miller
I mean by it not an intellectuall spirit, but a fine, unfixt, attenuate, subtill, ethereall substance, the immediate vehicle of plasticall or sensitive life.
From Democritus Platonissans by Henry More
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