un·fix

(ŭn-fĭks′)

tr.v. un·fixed, un·fix·ing, un·fix·es

1. To detach or unfasten: unfix bayonets.

2. To undo or cancel the arrangement of: unfix an appointment.

3. To cause to be unstable or uncertain: an experience that unfixed her beliefs.

4. To alter (one's gaze) from a single object or direction.

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unfixed

(ʌnˈfɪkst)

adj

not fixed

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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:

Adj.	1.	unfixed - not firmly placed or set or fastened insecure - not firm or firmly fixed; likely to fail or give way; "the hinge is insecure" fixed - securely placed or fastened or set; "a fixed piece of wood"; "a fixed resistor"
	2.	unfixed - lacking definition or definite content; "nebulous reasons"; "unfixed as were her general notions of what men ought to be"- Jane Austen nebulous indefinite - vague or not clearly defined or stated; "must you be so indefinite?"; "amorphous blots of color having vague and indefinite edges"; "he would not answer so indefinite a proposal"

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It was this faculty, more than any other, that made him so fit to ride upon the storm of the Revolution when everything was unfixed and drifting about in a troubled sea.

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I did not conceive of literature as the expression of life, and I could not imagine that it ought to be desultory, mutable, and unfixed, even if at the risk of some vagueness.

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He would have risen, and unfixed her fingers by the act - she clung fast, gasping: there was mad resolution in her face.

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Rushworth was an inferior young man, as ignorant in business as in books, with opinions in general unfixed, and without seeming much aware of it himself.

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Little as Catherine was in the habit of judging for herself, and unfixed as were her general notions of what men ought to be, she could not entirely repress a doubt, while she bore with the effusions of his endless conceit, of his being altogether completely agreeable.

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Everything was unfixed from its age-long rest, and moving at whirlwind speed in a direction opposite to their own.

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"And I an't a master-mind," Joe resumed, when he had unfixed his look, and got back to his whisker.

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There was a low cinder fire in a rusty, unfixed grate; and an old three-cornered stained table, with some medicine bottles, a broken glass, and a few other domestic articles, was drawn out before it.

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It also takes the form of an errant mind, unfixed and unfocused, moving in all directions at once.

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body fluids in situations where it is difficult or impossible to differentiate between body fluids; (2) Any unfixed tissue or organ (other than intact skin) from a human; and (3) HIV-containing cell or tissue cultures, organ cultures, and HIV- or HBV-containing culture medium or other solutions; and blood, organs, or other tissues from experimental animals infected with HIV or HBV.

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