fix

  1. Noun.  A repair or corrective action.
  2. Noun.  A difficult situation; a quandary or dilemma.
  3. Noun.  (informal) A single dose of an addictive drug administered to a drug user.
  4. Noun.  A prearrangement of the outcome of a competitive process, such as a sporting event, a game, an election, a trial, or a bid.
  5. Noun.  A determination of location.
  6. Verb.  To mend, to repair.
  7. Verb.  To attach, to become attached; to affix.
  8. Verb.  To become acutely focused or obsessed.
  9. Verb.  To prepare.
  10. Verb.  To make a contest, vote, or gamble unfair; to privilege one contestant or a particular group of contestants, usually before the contest begins.
  11. Verb.  To make a business of getting paid to arrange immunity for defendants by tampering with the justice system via bribery or extortionSutherland, Edwin H. (ed) (1937): The Professional Thief: by a Professional Thief. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. [Reprinted by various publishers in subsequent decades.].
  12. Verb.  (US) To surgically render an animal, especially a pet, infertile.
  13. Verb.  (mathematics, transitive) To map a (point or subset) to itself.
  14. Verb.  To avenge, to best; to serve justice on an assumed miscreant.
  15. Verb.  To purposefully stare at someone.

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