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
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 Dickens, Charles
Benis has always had fixed ideas—though when he was young," she added with satisfaction, "I knew how to unfix them.
From The Window-Gazer by Mackay, Isabel Ecclestone
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 Works of Rudyard Kipling One Volume Edition by Kipling, Rudyard
The power of music, the power of poetry, to unfix and as it were clap wings to solid nature, interprets the riddle of Orpheus.
From Essays — First Series by Emerson, Ralph Waldo
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
Still, over 700,000 of the Toyotas—roughly 24% of those recalled—remain unfixed, according to numbers from Toyota last month.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 8, 2025
Communal areas were neglected, lifts didn’t work and repairs went unfixed, Michele says.
From BBC ● Nov. 24, 2024
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
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
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
Something has been fixed at last, and I most certainly shall not consent to any further unfixing.
From Ayala's Angel by Trollope, Anthony
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)
Everything is fixed, and there is no unfixing.
From Mary Cary "Frequently Martha" by Bosher, Kate Langley
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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