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
This gentleman, becoming transfixed at the same moment as his lady-mother, could not by any means unfix himself again, but stood stiffly staring at the whole composition with Miss Fanny in the Foreground.
From Little Dorrit by Dickens, Charles
She said nothing until he had got up and tried to unfix the ladder without success.
From The Strand Magazine, Volume XXVII, Issue 160, April, 1904 by Various
"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 Warner, Susan
"There's only one thing to unfix the things I've stuck together," he said.
From The Triumph of John Kars A Story of the Yukon by Cullum, Ridgwell
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