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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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
I didn't fix the mother language, and I can't unfix it,' said the Captain coolly; 'else I'd make it pleasant.
From Martin Chuzzlewit by Charles Dickens
The morning Private Mucklewame fixed his bayonet for the first time, two small boys stayed away from school all day in order to see him unfix it when he came off guard in the afternoon.
From The First Hundred Thousand by Ian Hay
"Fix the top of your tree, you little Yankee!" said Alice; "what do you think John would say to that! unfix it, you mean; it is too stiff already, isn't it?"
From The Wide, Wide World by Susan Warner
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
Millions of cars recalled between 2015 and 2024 for air bags that may not deploy remain unfixed, the Journal reported.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 23, 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
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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