verb
- Restore by replacing a part or putting together what is torn or broken.
- usage: "She repaired her TV set"; "Repair my shoes please"
- Cause to be firmly attached.
- usage: "fasten the lock onto the door"; "she fixed her gaze on the man"
- Decide upon or fix definitely.
- usage: "fix the variables"; "specify the parameters"
- Prepare for eating by applying heat.
- usage: "Cook me dinner, please"; "can you make me an omelette"; "fix breakfast for the guests, please"
- Take vengeance on or get even.
- usage: "We'll get them"; "That'll fix him good"; "This time I got him"
- Set or place definitely.
- usage: "Let's fix the date for the party"
- synonyms: fix
- Kill, preserve, and harden (tissue) in order to prepare for microscopic study.
- synonyms: fix
- Make fixed, stable or stationary.
- usage: "let's fix the picture to the frame"
- Make infertile.
- usage: "in some countries, people with genetically transmissible disabilites are sterilized"
- synonyms: sterilize, sterilise, desex, unsex, desexualize, desexualise, fix
- Influence an event or its outcome by illegal means.
- usage: "fix a race"
- synonyms: fix
- Put (something somewhere) firmly.
- usage: "She posited her hand on his shoulder"; "deposit the suitcase on the bench"; "fix your eyes on this spot"
- Make ready or suitable or equip in advance for a particular purpose or for some use, event, etc.
- usage: "Get the children ready for school"; "prepare for war"; "I was fixing to leave town after I paid the hotel bill"
adjective
- Of a number. ( having a fixed and unchanging value)
- Fixed and unmoving.
- usage: "with eyes set in a fixed glassy stare"; "his bearded face already has a set hollow look- Connor Cruise O'Brien; "a face rigid with pain"
- Securely placed or fastened or set.
- usage: "a fixed piece of wood"; "a fixed resistor"
- (adj.) ().
- synonyms: frozen
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