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

I said, that I could not unfix it.

From Daisy in the Field by Warner, Susan

Dawn, and the men unfix bayonets as they step down from the fire-step and clean their rifles with pull-throughs.

From Tales of War by Dunsany, Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett, Baron

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

I didn't fix the mother language, and I can't unfix it,' said the Captain coolly; 'else I'd make it pleasant.

From Martin Chuzzlewit by Dickens, Charles