fixed
verb
- 1
To pierce; now generally replaced by transfix.
- 2
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.”
- 3
To mend, to repair.
“That heater will start a fire if you don't fix it.”
- 4
To prepare (food or drink).
“She fixed dinner for the kids.”
- 5
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.”
- 6
To surgically render an animal, especially a pet, infertile.
“Rover stopped digging under the fence after we had the vet fix him.”
- 7
(sematics) To map a (point or subset) to itself.
- 8
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.”
- 9
To render (a photographic impression) permanent by treating with such applications as will make it insensitive to the action of light.
- 10
To convert into a stable or available form.
“Legumes are valued in crop rotation for their ability to fix nitrogen.”
- 11
To become fixed; to settle or remain permanently; to cease from wandering; to rest.
- 12
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.
Synonyms
adjective
- 1
Not changing, not able to be changed, staying the same.
“Every religion has its own fixed ideas.”
- 2
Stationary.
- 3
Attached; affixed.
- 4
Chemically stable.
- 5
Supplied with what one needs.
“She's nicely fixed after two divorce settlements.”
- 6
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.”
- 7
Surgically rendered infertile (spayed, neutered or castrated).
“a fixed tomcat; the she-cat has been fixed”
- 8
Rigged; fraudulently prearranged.
- 9
(of a problem) Resolved; corrected.
- 10
Repaired
Antonyms
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