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
Nothing can be more implacable than their resentment––no time can allay it––no change of circumstances unfix its purpose.
From Chronicles of Border Warfare or, a History of the Settlement by the Whites, of North-Western Virginia, and of the Indian Wars and Massacres in that section of the Indian Wars and Massacres in that section of the State by Thwaites, Reuben Gold
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
That transfer, just or unjust, had taken place so long ago, that to reverse it would be to unfix the foundations of society.
From The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 2 by Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron
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
