unfix

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   to loosen, detach, or remove something from a fixed position

   The violent shock seemed to unfix every object from its place.

2. 2
   verb

   literary: to disturb or unsettle a person's mind, gaze, or composure

   The horrid image threatened to unfix his reason.

Formed from un- + fix. The physical sense reverses fastening; literary uses extend that loss of fixed position to hair, attention, composure, or reason.

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