unfix

It’s kind of like when you are staring at something and you unfix your eyes, and your body relaxes.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 2026

She was home from boarding school for the summer, and day after day the sun rose into a cloudless sky, from which Jane couldn’t unfix the word “cerulean,” which she’d learned in the art room.

From The New Yorker ● Jul. 2, 2012

Macbeth speaks of— that suggestion Whose horrid image doth unfix my hair And make my seated heart knock at my ribs Against the use of nature.

From The Analysis of Mind by Bertrand Russell

She said nothing until he had got up and tried to unfix the ladder without success.

From The Strand Magazine, Volume XXVII, Issue 160, April, 1904 by Various

This gentleman, becoming transfixed at the same moment as his lady-mother, could not by any means unfix himself again, but stood stiffly staring at the whole composition with Miss Fanny in the Foreground.

From Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens

If the federal government were the only entity who could file these claims, then every small hotel chain with a broken ramp might go unfixed.

From Slate ● May 19, 2026

About 154,000 vehicles—roughly 37%—affected by the Kia recall remain unfixed, according to the latest records that automakers must file with NHTSA.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 8, 2025

The fence, which is it at the back of a house in the estate, remains unfixed and a vehicle which was burnt out in a nearby car park remains close to the scene.

From BBC ● May 7, 2024

If left unfixed, it could have severely affected Euclid’s science mission and led to gaps in its map of the Universe.

From Scientific American ● Oct. 10, 2023

Their union was leached of passion, but there was a new passion, outside of themselves, that united them in an intimacy they had never had before, an unfixed, unspoken, intuitive intimacy: Barack Obama.

From "Americanah" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Most brokerage houses, while technically unfixing their rates, still charge about the same fees as before on small trades on a take-it-or-leave-it basis.

From Time Magazine Archive

A few moments were suffered to elapse: and then, unfixing the haulser from the stem, and bringing it aft to the stern, we commenced hauling.

From My Schools and Schoolmasters or The Story of my Education. by Hugh Miller

By this time some fifty officers and blue-jackets were about the roof and ledge, some discussing, others unfixing lanterns and festoons, with shouted directions.

From The Lord of the Sea by M. P. (Matthew Phipps) Shiel

Everything is fixed, and there is no unfixing.

From Mary Cary "Frequently Martha" by Kate Langley Bosher

Something has been fixed at last, and I most certainly shall not consent to any further unfixing.

From Ayala's Angel by Anthony Trollope

I mean by it not an intellectuall spirit, but a fine, unfixt, attenuate, subtill, ethereall substance, the immediate vehicle of plasticall or sensitive life.

From Democritus Platonissans by Henry More