unfix
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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
The company officers ordered their men to unfix bayonets, and to help each other up the rocks.
From History of the War in South Africa 1899-1902 v. 1 (of 4) Compiled by Direction of His Majesty's Government by Great Britain. War Office
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 Kipling, Rudyard
The power of music, the power of poetry, to unfix and as it were clap wings to solid nature, interprets the riddle of Orpheus.
From Essays — First Series by Emerson, Ralph Waldo
Benis has always had fixed ideas—though when he was young," she added with satisfaction, "I knew how to unfix them.
From The Window-Gazer by Mackay, Isabel Ecclestone
