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unfixing

unfixing is the present participle and gerund of unfix.

Meaning of unfix

Verb

unfix (third-person singular simple present unfixes, present participle unfixing, simple past and past participle unfixed)

  1. (transitive) To unfasten from a fixing.
    • Whose horrid image doth unfix my hair and make my seated heart knock at my ribs against the use of nature?c. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount...
  2. (transitive) To break again (something previously fixed).
    • If a problem automatically fixes itself, you probably encountered a problem that will find a way to unfix itself soon.2025, Kevin Focke, The Code Monster Manual

Questions about unfixing

What is unfixing the present participle and gerund of?
Unfixing is the present participle and gerund of unfix.

Words near unfixing in the dictionary

  1. unfixably
  2. unfixated
  3. unfixed
  4. unfixedness
  5. unfixes
  6. unfixing
  7. unfixities
  8. unfixity
  9. unfixt
  10. unfizzy
  11. unflabbergasted

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Adapted from Wiktionary: unfixing (page history and authors); unfix (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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