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
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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
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 Harte, Bret
Of the so many I taught,'—here the students would begin to unfix drawing-pins or get their tubes together,—'the very so many that I have taught, the best was Binat.
From The Light That Failed by Kipling, Rudyard
Nothing can be more implacable than their resentment––no time can allay it––no change of circumstances unfix its purpose.
From Chronicles of Border Warfare or, a History of the Settlement by the Whites, of North-Western Virginia, and of the Indian Wars and Massacres in that section of the Indian Wars and Massacres in that section of the State by Thwaites, Reuben Gold
Presently they saw a sailor sliding down the rope to unfix the anchor.
From The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life by Alger, William Rounseville
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 2.6 million, or around 22%, of affected vehicles remain unfixed, according to an analysis of the latest National Highway Traffic Safety Administration data by The Wall Street Journal.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 8, 2025
The fence, which is it at the back of a house in the estate, remains unfixed and a vehicle which was burnt out in a nearby car park remains close to the scene.
From BBC ● May 7, 2024
If left unfixed, it could have severely affected Euclid’s science mission and led to gaps in its map of the Universe.
From Scientific American ● Oct. 10, 2023
“And I ain’t a master-mind,” Joe resumed, when he had unfixed his look, and got back to his whisker.
From "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens
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 Trollope, Anthony
Everything is fixed, and there is no unfixing.
From Mary Cary "Frequently Martha" by Bosher, Kate Langley
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 Shiel, M. P. (Matthew Phipps)
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 Miller, Hugh
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 More, Henry
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