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fix

/fɪks/ verbo B1

En español: arreglar, componer, apañar, atufar

  1. To attach; to affix; to hold in place or at a particular time. (transitive) · A dab of chewing gum will fix your note to the bulletin board.· A leech can fix itself to your skin without you feeling it.
  2. To focus or determine (oneself, on a concept); to fixate. (figuratively, transitive) · She's fixed on the idea of becoming a doctor.
  3. 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. (transitive)
  4. To mend, to repair. (transitive) · That heater will start a fire if you don't fix it.· You can't fix stupid.
  5. To be immensely pleasurable to. (transitive) · Some pizza rolls would fix me right now.· Getting tongued by a hot woman would fix me.
  6. To prepare (food or drink). (informal) · She fixed dinner for the kids.
  7. 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. (transitive)
  8. To surgically render an animal, especially a pet, infertile. (US, informal, transitive) · Rover stopped digging under the fence after we had the vet fix him.

Plural fix · He/she/it fixes · Pasado fixt · Participio pasado fixt · Forma en -ing fixing

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Formas del verbo

Forma base
fix
He/she/it
fixes
Pasado
fixt
Participio pasado
fixt
Forma en -ing
fixing

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De la biblioteca

It is true that a shutter had half closed outside and obstructed the view, but none the less it was certainly at the window that Holmes was fixing his concentrated attention.
The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes, p. 65 · B2
While she was trying to fix on one, the cook took the cauldron of soup off the fire, and at once set to work throwing everything within her reach at the Duchess and the baby—the fire-irons came first; then followed a shower of saucepans, plates, and dishes.
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, p. 42 · B2
I would fain fix the source of it on man that I may no longer vent reproaches upon Heaven.”
The Count of Monte Cristo, p. 160 · C1
“The contract,” answered Dantès, laughingly, “it didn’t take long to fix that.
The Count of Monte Cristo, p. 27 · C1

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