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The word that lets you promise repair without specifying how, when, or whether.
means To restore something broken, mend a problem, or fasten something firmly in place — a single verb covering repair, settling, and attachment.
from From Latin 'fixus,' the past participle of 'figere,' meaning to fasten, drive in, or pierce — think of a nail fixed into wood. The word entered English through Old French in the 15th century, carrying that sense of making something firm and immovable. The 'repair' meaning developed later, as a natural extension: to fix something is to drive it back into a fastened, working state, the same way you'd drive a nail back into place.
- original meaning
- meant fastening something, not repairing it
- drug slang
- a fix meaning a dose dates to 1930s American slang
- election sense
- to fix a race means rigging it, opposite of honest
- cat fixed
- neutering slang exists because surgery permanently settles things