Verb

(obsolete) To pierce; now generally replaced by transfix.

# (by extension) (Of a piercing look) to direct at someone.

He fixed me with a sickly grin, and said, "I told you it wouldn't work!"

To attach; to affix; to hold in place.

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.

# (transitive, figuratively, usually in the passive) To focus or determine (oneself, on a concept); to fixate.

She's fixed on the idea of becoming a doctor.

To mend, to repair.

That heater will start a fire if you don't fix it.

(informal) To prepare (food).

She fixed dinner for the kids.

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 extortionSutherland, Edwin H. (ed) (1937): The Professional Thief: by a Professional Thief. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. [Reprinted by various publishers in subsequent decades.]

A majority of voters believed the election was fixed in favor of the incumbent.

(transitive, US, informal) To surgically render an animal, especially a pet, infertile.

Rover stopped digging under the fence after we had the vet fix him.

(transitive, mathematics, sematics) To map a (point or subset) to itself.

(informal) 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.

To render (a photographic impression) permanent by treating with such applications as will make it insensitive to the action of light.

(transitive, chemistry, biology) To convert into a stable or available form.

Legumes are valued in crop rotation for their ability to fix nitrogen.

(Abney)

To become fixed; to settle or remain permanently; to cease from wandering; to rest.

* (rfdate) (Waller)

Your kindness banishes your fear, / Resolved to fix forever here.

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.

(Francis Bacon)

Verb

To harmonize in opinion, statement, or action; to be in unison or concord; to be or become united or consistent; to concur.

all parties agree in the expediency of the law.

* {{quote-book, year=1594

, author=Thomas Lodge , title=The wounds of civil war: Lively set forth in the true tragedies of Marius and Scilla , page=46 , passage=You know that in so great a state as this, Two mightie foes can never well agree .}}

* (rfdate) Shakespeare

If music and sweet poetry agree .

* (rfdate) Mark xiv. 56.

Their witness agreed not together.

* (rfdate) Sir T. Browne

The more you agree together, the less hurt can your enemies do you.

To yield assent; to accede;—followed by to.

to agree to an offer, or to opinion.

(transitive, UK, Irish) To yield assent to; to approve.

* {{quote-book, year=1666

, author=Samuel Pepys , title=The Diary of Samuel Pepys , page=88 , passage=... and there, after a good while in discourse, we did agree a bargain of £5,000 with Sir Roger Cuttance for my Lord Sandwich for silk, cinnamon, ...}}

* {{quote-book, year=2005

, author=Paddy McNutt , title=Law, economics and antitrust: towards a new perspective , page=59 , passage=The essential idea is that parties should enter the market, choose their contractors, set their own terms and agree a bargain.}}

* 2011 April 3, John Burke, in The Sunday Business Post :

Bishops agree sex abuse rules

To make a stipulation by way of settling differences or determining a price; to exchange promises; to come to terms or to a common resolve; to promise.

* (rfdate) Matt. v. 25.

Agree with thine adversary quickly.

* (rfdate) Matt. xx. 13.

Didst not thou agree with me for a penny ?

To be conformable; to resemble; to coincide; to correspond.

the picture does not agree with the original; the two scales agree exactly.

To suit or be adapted in its effects; to do well.

the same food does not agree with every constitution.

(grammar) To correspond to in gender, number, case, or person.

(legal) To consent to a contract or to an element of a contract.