unfix

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English

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Etymology

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From un- +‎ fix.

Verb

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

  1. (transitive) To unfasten from a fixing.
    • c. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies [] (First Folio), London: [] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene iii]:
      Whose horrid image doth unfix my hair and make my seated heart knock at my ribs against the use of nature?

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