fixed
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How fixed fits the hive
Base Score
5
Before any pangram bonus
Unique Letters
5
D E F I X
Two-Letter Start
FI
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Ending
ED
Useful for cleanup scans
- 5 letters
- 5 unique letters
- FI start
- ED ending
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Pronunciation
Definitions
verb
To pierce; now generally replaced by transfix.
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."
verb
To mend, to repair.
"That heater will start a fire if you don't fix it."
verb
To prepare (food or drink).
"She fixed dinner for the kids."
verb
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
"A majority of voters believed the election was fixed in favor of the incumbent."
verb
To surgically render an animal, especially a pet, infertile.
"Rover stopped digging under the fence after we had the vet fix him."
verb
(sematics) To map a (point or subset) to itself.
verb
To take revenge on, to best; to serve justice on an assumed miscreant.
"He got caught breaking into lockers, so a couple of guys fixed him after work."
verb
To render (a photographic impression) permanent by treating with such applications as will make it insensitive to the action of light.
verb
To convert into a stable or available form.
"Legumes are valued in crop rotation for their ability to fix nitrogen."
verb
To become fixed; to settle or remain permanently; to cease from wandering; to rest.
verb
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.
adjective
Not changing, not able to be changed, staying the same.
"Every religion has its own fixed ideas."
adjective
Stationary.
adjective
Attached; affixed.
adjective
Chemically stable.
adjective
Supplied with what one needs.
"She's nicely fixed after two divorce settlements."
adjective
Of sound, recorded on a permanent medium.
"In the United States, recordings are only granted copyright protection when the sounds in the recording were fixed and first published on or after February 15, 1972."
adjective
Surgically rendered infertile (spayed, neutered or castrated).
"a fixed tomcat; the she-cat has been fixed"
adjective
Rigged; fraudulently prearranged.
adjective
(of a problem) Resolved; corrected.
adjective
Repaired
Related Words
Synonyms
- join
- puttogether
- unite
- doctor
- rig
- patch
- puttorights
- rectify
- impale
- runthrough
- stick
- castrate
Antonyms
- change
- move
- mobile