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
Other Word Forms
- unfixedness noun
Etymology
Origin of unfix
Example Sentences
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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
I am thane of Cawdor— If good, why do I yield to that suggestion, Whose horrid image doth unfix my hair, And make my seated heart knock at my ribs, Against the use of nature?
From Characteristics of Women Moral, Poetical, and Historical by Jameson, Mrs. (Anna)
That transfer, just or unjust, had taken place so long ago, that to reverse it would be to unfix the foundations of society.
From The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 2 by Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron
To admit the genuineness of the "Acts" is to throw into confusion the little history that we certainly know, and to unfix the continuity of events.
From The Cradle of the Christ A Study in Primitive Christianity by Frothingham, Octavius Brooks
Instead, we fix and unfix bayonets every ten minutes and make martial noises.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, February 7, 1917 by Various
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