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
"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
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
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
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
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