unfix

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verb

To unfasten from a fixing.

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Meanings

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

present singular third person unfixes · participle present unfixing · participle past unfixed · past unfixed

  1. transitiveTo 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?

    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]
  2. transitiveTo 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.

    2025, Kevin Focke, The Code Monster Manual

Origin

From un- + fix.

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Rhymes & wordplay

Anagrams

FuxinXinfu
Cite this entry
APA

unfix. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unfix

MLA

“unfix.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unfix. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “unfix,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unfix.

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