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unfix

verb

Etymology

From un- + fix.

  1. derived from *dʰeygʷ-✻
  2. derived from fīxus
  3. derived from *fixer✻
  4. inherited from fixen
  5. prefixed as unfix — “un + fix”

Definitions

  1. To unfasten from a fixing.

    • Whose horrid image doth unfix my hair and make my seated heart knock at my ribs against the use of nature?

  2. To break again (something previously fixed).

    • If a problem automatically fixes itself, you probably encountered a problem that will find a way to unfix itself soon.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for unfix. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA