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
The company officers ordered their men to unfix bayonets, and to help each other up the rocks.
From History of the War in South Africa 1899-1902 v. 1 (of 4) Compiled by Direction of His Majesty's Government by Great Britain. War Office
Dawn, and the men unfix bayonets as they step down from the fire-step and clean their rifles with pull-throughs.
From Tales of War by Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett, Baron Dunsany
His foes are so enrooted with his friends, That, plucking to unfix an enemy, He doth unfasten so and shake a friend.
From Shakespeare: His Life, Art, And Characters, Volume I. With An Historical Sketch Of The Origin And Growth Of The Drama In England by Henry Norman Hudson
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
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
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
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
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
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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