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

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 Frothingham, Octavius Brooks

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 Dickens, Charles

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

The morning Private Mucklewame fixed his bayonet for the first time, two small boys stayed away from school all day in order to see him unfix it when he came off guard in the afternoon.

From The First Hundred Thousand by Hay, Ian