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Fix

verb

(past & past part. fixed; pres. part. fixing)

1.

Restore by replacing a part or putting together what is torn or broken. Synonyms: bushel, doctor, furbish up, mend, repair, restore, touch on. "Repair my shoes please"

2.

Cause to be firmly attached. Synonyms: fasten, secure. "She fixed her gaze on the man"

3.

Decide upon or fix definitely. Synonyms: define, determine, limit, set, specify. "Specify the parameters"

4.

Prepare for eating by applying heat. Synonyms: cook, make, prepare, ready. "Can you make me an omelette?" , "Fix breakfast for the guests, please"

5.

Take vengeance on or get even. Synonyms: get, pay back, pay off. "That'll fix him good!" , "This time I got him"

6.

Set or place definitely.

7.

Kill, preserve, and harden (tissue) in order to prepare for microscopic study.

8.

Make fixed, stable or stationary. Synonym: fixate.

9.

Make infertile. Synonyms: desex, desexualise, desexualize, sterilise, sterilize, unsex.

10.

Influence an event or its outcome by illegal means.

11.

Put (something somewhere) firmly. Synonyms: deposit, posit, situate. "Deposit the suitcase on the bench" , "Fix your eyes on this spot"

12.

Make ready or suitable or equip in advance for a particular purpose or for some use, event, etc. Synonyms: gear up, prepare, ready, set, set up. "Prepare for war" , "I was fixing to leave town after I paid the hotel bill"

noun

1.

Informal terms for a difficult situation. Synonyms: hole, jam, kettle of fish, mess, muddle, pickle. "He made a muddle of his marriage"

2.

Something craved, especially an intravenous injection of a narcotic drug.

3.

The act of putting something in working order again. Synonyms: fixing, fixture, mend, mending, repair, reparation.

4.

An exemption granted after influence (e.g., money) is brought to bear.

5.

A determination of the place where something is. Synonyms: localisation, localization, locating, location.

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"Fix" Quotes from Famous Books

... interesting expeditions of this epoch—though I cannot fix the exact date—was to an old English country-seat, built in the time of Henry VIII., or earlier, and added to from age to age since then, until now it presented an irregularity and incongruousness of plan which rendered it an interminable maze of delight to us children wandering through ...

— Hawthorne and His Circle • Julian Hawthorne

... town presumably extended beyond these narrow limits. But it is not easy to fix its area, nor are unmistakable 'insulae' to be detected outside them. On the west the Via Tornabuoni seems to have marked the Roman limit, as it does to-day. On the north, a probable line is given by the gateway, Por Episcopi, which once ...

— Ancient Town-Planning • F. Haverfield

... him, too, what she could do—compel him to applaud her. She would force him away from the little temptress, and oblige him to gaze up at her whose art—she learned this daily—possessed the power to fix the attention of spectators like the thrall of the basilisk's eye. When on the rope she was no insignificant personage. He should tremble for her as did the gray-haired, scarred captain of the foot soldiers, Mannsbach, the day before yesterday. He had told her that his heart ...

— Uarda • Georg Ebers

... baby for whom we are primarily and directly responsible is the babe unborn. That is, that we know (or may come to know) enough of certain inevitable tendencies in biology to consider the fruit of some contemplated union in that direct and clear light of conscience which we can now only fix on the other partner in that union. The one duty can conceivably be as definite as or more definite than the other. The baby that does not exist can be considered even before the wife who does. Now ...

— Eugenics and Other Evils • G. K. Chesterton

... to tea with us, Master Bobbie, and Missy?" he enquired, stopping to fan his heated face with a red pocket-handkerchief. "James Seton's got some guinea-pigs that he talks of bringing over for you to see, any day as you'll fix upon." ...

— Soap-Bubble Stories - For Children • Fanny Barry

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