fixing
fik sing
- n the act of putting something in working order again
- n restraint that attaches to something or holds something in place
- n the sterilization of an animal
- n (histology) the preservation and hardening of a tissue sample to retain as nearly as possible the same relations they had in the living body
- v restore by replacing a part or putting together what is torn or broken
- v cause to be firmly attached
- v decide upon or fix definitely
- v prepare for eating by applying heat
- v take vengeance on or get even
- v set or place definitely
- v kill, preserve, and harden (tissue) in order to prepare for microscopic study
- v make fixed, stable or stationary
- v make infertile
- v influence an event or its outcome by illegal means
- v put (something somewhere) firmly
- v make ready or suitable or equip in advance for a particular purpose or for some use, event, etc
I was fixing to leave town after I paid the hotel bill
- Rumors of match-fixing have been circulating for years, and the stories proliferated in the 1990s as the fast-paced, one-day version of the game made it .