unfix

English

Etymology

un- +‎ fix

Verb

unfix (third-person singular simple present unfixes, present participle unfixing, simple past and past participle unfixed)

(transitive) To unfasten from a fixing.
- c. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene iii]:
  Whose horrid image doth unfix my hair and make my seated heart knock at my ribs against the use of nature?

Anagrams

Fuxin, Xinfu

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