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  • verb Present participle of unfix.

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Examples

  • Anyone want action on an iTunes 8.2.2 release that fixes the unfixing of the fix?

    UFies.org: July 2009 Archives 2009

  • Wolfson sums this up quite eloquently, linking this feature with Keats's musicality: The urn befriends its readers the way Keats's rhyme doesby encouraging our imaginative activity in a perpetual fixing and unfixing of what we think we know.

    Teaching Like an Urn 2003

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

    Ayala's Angel 2004

  • A ripple like fire ran down the line of sepoys; they were unfixing bayonets before marching away.

    Burmese Days 2002

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

    Ayala's Angel 1993

  • 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.

    The Lord of the Sea 1906

  • I most certainly shall not consent to any further unfixing.

    Ayala's Angel 1881

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

    Ayala's Angel 1881

  • Jiuyémon, seeing that his wife did not come to open the door, got impatient at last, and forced it open by unfixing the sliding shutter and, entering the house, found himself face to face with his wife and her lover, who were both in such confusion that they did not know what to do.

    Tales of Old Japan Algernon Bertram Freeman-Mitford Redesdale 1876

  • But this was not so great a misfortune as at first it might seem, for he had the spare flint locks and the little screw-driver necessary for fixing and unfixing them stowed away in his shot pouch.

    The Dog Crusoe and his Master 1859

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