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
What mattered that to unfix those glittering stars would still tax both skill and patience!
From On the Frontier by Harte, Bret
The power of music, the power of poetry, to unfix and as it were clap wings to solid nature, interprets the riddle of Orpheus.
From Essays — First Series by Emerson, Ralph Waldo
The company officers ordered their men to unfix bayonets, and to help each other up the rocks.
From History of the War in South Africa 1899-1902 v. 1 (of 4) Compiled by Direction of His Majesty's Government by Great Britain. War Office
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