EGAVE

fix

About 10.69 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. verb To pierce; now generally replaced by transfix. (Of a piercing look) to direct at someone.
    He fixed me with a sickly grin, and said, "I told you it wouldn't work!"
  2. verb (Of a piercing look) to direct at someone.
    He fixed me with a sickly grin, and said, "I told you it wouldn't work!"
  3. verb To attach; to affix; to hold in place or at a particular time.
    A dab of chewing gum will fix your note to the bulletin board.
  4. verb To focus or determine (oneself, on a concept); to fixate.
    She's fixed on the idea of becoming a doctor.
  5. verb To prevent enemy pawns from advancing by directly opposing the most advanced one with one of one's own pawns so as to threaten to capture any advancing backward pawns.
  6. verb To mend, to repair.
    That heater will start a fire if you don't fix it.
  7. verb To be immensely pleasurable to.
    Some pizza rolls would fix me right now.
  8. verb To prepare (food or drink).
    She fixed dinner for the kids.

Similar words

fasten hole sterilize touch on set desex muddle situate mess determine

Often followed by

the it a on their his them up upon

Word family

fix her hopes fix her sights fix his hopes fix his sights fix it fix my hopes fix my sights fix one's hopes fix one's sights fix our hopes

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