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

To admit the genuineness of the "Acts" is to throw into confusion the little history that we certainly know, and to unfix the continuity of events.

From The Cradle of the Christ A Study in Primitive Christianity by Octavius Brooks Frothingham

Whereupon the Soudanese caught hold of the bayonet and tried to unfix it.

From For Fortune and Glory A Story of the Soudan War by Walter Paget

The order was marching by149 fours to fix or unfix bayonets.

From The heart of happy hollow A collection of stories by Paul Laurence Dunbar

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

Communal areas were neglected, lifts didn’t work and repairs went unfixed, Michele says.

From BBC ● Nov. 24, 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

No lights, an unfixed drainpipe, slack net curtains.

From "Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell

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

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

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

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