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

This gentleman, becoming transfixed at the same moment as his lady-mother, could not by any means unfix himself again, but stood stiffly staring at the whole composition with Miss Fanny in the Foreground.

From Little Dorrit by Dickens, Charles

Presently they saw a sailor sliding down the rope to unfix the anchor.

From The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life by Alger, William Rounseville

Benis has always had fixed ideas—though when he was young," she added with satisfaction, "I knew how to unfix them.

From The Window-Gazer by Mackay, Isabel Ecclestone

What mattered that to unfix those glittering stars would still tax both skill and patience!

From On the Frontier by Harte, Bret