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Webster 1913 Edition


Unfix

Un-fix′

,
Verb.
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.

Webster 1828 Edition


Unfix

UNFIX'

, v.t.
1.
To loosen from any fastening; to detach from any thing that holds; to unsettle; to unhinge; as, to unfix the mind or affections.
2.
To make fluid; to dissolve.
Nor can the rising sun unfix their frosts.

Definition 2024


unfix

unfix

English

Verb

unfix (third-person singular simple present unfixes, present participle unfixing, simple past and past participle unfixed)

  1. To unfasten from a fixing
    Quotation
    • 1603-06: "Whose horrid image doth unfix my hair and make my seated heart knock at my ribs against the use of nature?" Macbeth: Ac.1 Sc3, Wm. Shakespeare.