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

Of the so many I taught,"—here the students would begin to unfix drawing-pins or get their tubes together,—"the very so many that I have taught, the best was Binat.

From The Works of Rudyard Kipling One Volume Edition by Rudyard Kipling

Instead, we fix and unfix bayonets every ten minutes and make martial noises.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, February 7, 1917 by Various

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

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

Millions of cars recalled between 2015 and 2024 for air bags that may not deploy remain unfixed, the Journal reported.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 23, 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

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

From Ayala's Angel by Anthony Trollope

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

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

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