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

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

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

She said nothing until he had got up and tried to unfix the ladder without success.

From The Strand Magazine, Volume XXVII, Issue 160, April, 1904 by Various