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Fix   /fɪks/   Listen
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



... could not fix his mind upon his subject. He found himself heavily conscious of the silence of the house; and by and by he rose and went up-stairs to their bedroom, standing drearily in the centre of the floor, and looking about at his own loneliness. ...
— John Ward, Preacher • Margaret Deland
... replied while his guest tried to fix the date. "It was my brother Miles. He was awfully clever, but had no health, poor chap, and we lost him at seventeen. She used to take houses at such places with him—it was supposed to be for ...
— The Awkward Age • Henry James
... mercy's sake!" she whispered, putting her handkerchief over Patty's mouth, "we're in a terrible fix! It's either thieves or murderers, or else it's witches. Yes, Polly ...
— Little Grandmother • Sophie May
... hearken. It was the sun of her week, through whose heavy clouds flickered the pale stars of distractions for which she was beginning to care little. One of life's compensations is that there is always something ahead, some trifling event of interest or pleasure upon which one may fix one's eye and endeavour to forget the dreary tissue of monotony and commonplace between. Betty found herself acquiring the habit of casting her eye over the day as soon as she awoke in the morning, and if nothing distracting presented itself, she planned ...
— Senator North • Gertrude Atherton
... just conceptions of the great and manifold excellences of their object, or to be ignorant, unmeaning, or vague: whether they are natural and easy, or constrained and forced; wakeful and apt to fix on their great objects, delighting in their proper nutriment (if the expression may be allowed) the exercises of prayer and praise, and religious contemplation; or voluntarily omitting offered occasions ...
— A Practical View of the Prevailing Religious System of Professed Christians, in the Middle and Higher Classes in this Country, Contrasted with Real Christianity. • William Wilberforce


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