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To pierce; now generally replaced by transfix.
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To attach; to affix; to hold in place or at a particular time.
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A dab of chewing gum will fix your note to the bulletin board.
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To mend, to repair.
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That heater will start a fire if you don't fix it.
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To prepare (food or drink).
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She fixed dinner for the kids.
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To make (a contest, vote, or gamble) unfair; to privilege one contestant or a particular group of contestants, usually before the contest begins; to arrange immunity for defendants by tampering with the justice system via bribery or extortion
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A majority of voters believed the election was fixed in favor of the incumbent.
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To surgically render an animal, especially a pet, infertile.
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Rover stopped digging under the fence after we had the vet fix him.
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(sematics) To map a (point or subset) to itself.
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To take revenge on, to best; to serve justice on an assumed miscreant.
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He got caught breaking into lockers, so a couple of guys fixed him after work.
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To render (a photographic impression) permanent by treating with such applications as will make it insensitive to the action of light.
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To convert into a stable or available form.
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Legumes are valued in crop rotation for their ability to fix nitrogen.
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To become fixed; to settle or remain permanently; to cease from wandering; to rest.
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To become firm, so as to resist volatilization; to cease to flow or be fluid; to congeal; to become hard and malleable, as a metallic substance.