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defix

defix verb: to fix, fasten, or establish.

Verb

defix (third-person singular simple present defixes, present participle defixing, simple past and past participle defixed)

  1. (obsolete) To fix, fasten, or establish.
    • to defixe their princely seate […] in that extreme province1589, Richard Hakluyt, The Principall Navigations, Voiages, and Discoveries of the English Nation, […], London: […] George Bishop and Ralph Newberie, deputies to Christopher Barker, […], →OCLC

Forms of defix

third-person singular presentdefixes
present participledefixing
past participledefixed
pastdefixed

Origin of defix

From Latin defixus, past participle of defigere (“to fix”), from de- + figere (“to fix”).

Questions about defix

What does defix mean?
Defix means to fix, fasten, or establish.
What part of speech is defix?
Defix is a verb.
What is the past tense of defix?
The past tense of defix is defixed.

Words near defix in the dictionary

  1. DeFiores
  2. defish
  3. defished
  4. defishes
  5. defishing
  6. defix
  7. defixed
  8. defixes
  9. defixing
  10. deflagatory
  11. deflagellate

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