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Unfix

Unfix \Un*fix"\, v. t. [1st pref. un- + fix.]

  1. To loosen from a fastening; to detach from anything that holds; to unsettle; as, to unfix a bayonet; to unfix the mind or affections.

  2. To make fluid; to dissolve. [R.]

    The mountain stands; nor can the rising sun Unfix her frosts.
    --Dryden.

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unfix

vb. To unfasten from a fixing

Usage examples of "unfix".

And with the candles and the wood fires and the ancient stones, it was a blink of the eye to imagine, this misty morning, that he had come unfixed in time, that oared vessels with heraldic sails might appear out of the mist on the end of the lake.

It is perhaps not too much to say that any calamity the moment it is apprehended by the reason alone loses nearly all its power to disturb and unfix us.

That was ahead of other questions, such as where they did come from, or what the unfixed star might be and what it meant.

Now if Matter possesses an identity--though only the identity of being indeterminate, unfixed and without quality--how can we bring it so under two principles?

Sensing his reluctance, Sharana unfixed the clasp that held her scant robe in place and let it fall open.

Since the top was being built first as it rose, it was widening slowly but perceptibly and the upper sections had a tendency to draw slack from the unfixed ones being raised.

From fixed-launcher sites, which are pre surveyed and from unfixed sites where they have to stop and survey before they fire.

Or, for an alternative source of flower-sails, there the unfixed star, the persistent oddness of which argue least that it had something to do with this manifes of machines, since it was a newcomer to the skies, since it had been, in the last forty years, acquiring a pl ora of what might be unfixed moonlets, mere sparks, But again, Manadgi thought,-the sparks themsel might grow-or come nearer to the earth and deal v men.

Her look was cold, wide, unfixed, with nothing of gratitude or of personal in it.

Deep into five-letter permutations, she can lose her way, suddenly unfixed from the letters and their strange internal rhythms.

She feels something has separated, softly come unfixed, and she tries to pull him down to the floor with her, stop him, keep him here, or crawls up onto him or into him, dissolving, or only lies prone and sobs unstoppably, being watched by herself from above.

It took her a long moment to remember getting into bed with him, and now, slowly, without unfixing her eyes from his, she stretched one leg carefully and let it touch the floor, then the other one.

Moses moved around the Time-Car, unfixing the caps of the remaining flasks.

Donfil said, finally unfixing his eyes from the horizon and staring intently at the captain of the whaler.

Gradually, the mansion fell into disrepair, and the land became useless, the fields untended, the cotton unplanted, the fences unfixed.