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

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

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

That transfer, just or unjust, had taken place so long ago, that to reverse it would be to unfix the foundations of society.

From The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 2 by Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron

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