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

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

Macbeth speaks of— that suggestion Whose horrid image doth unfix my hair And make my seated heart knock at my ribs Against the use of nature.

From The Analysis of Mind by Russell, Bertrand

What mattered that his single arm could not lift the treasure he had found; what mattered that to unfix those glittering stars would still tax both skill and patience!

From Frontier Stories by Harte, Bret

Nothing could now unfix his gaze from the little ring of metal with its black interior.

From The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce — Volume 2: In the Midst of Life: Tales of Soldiers and Civilians by Bierce, Ambrose