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| NOUN: | 1. Money, property, or a favor given, offered, or promised to a person or accepted by a person in a position of trust as an inducement to dishonest behavior: bribe, graft, payola. Informal : payoff. Slang : boodle. See CRIMES, MONEY, PERSUASION. 2. A difficult, often embarrassing situation or condition: box1, corner, deep water, difficulty, dilemma, Dutch, hole, hot spot, hot water, jam, plight1, predicament, quagmire, scrape, soup, trouble. Informal : bind, pickle, spot. See EASY. | | VERB: | 1. To alter for proper functioning: adjust, regulate, set1, tune (up). Music : attune. See CHANGE, HELP. 2. To bring about or come to an agreement concerning: arrange, conclude, negotiate, set1, settle. See AGREE. 3. To join one thing to another: affix, attach, clip2, connect, couple, fasten, moor, secure. See ASSEMBLE. 4. Informal. To exact revenge for or from: avenge, pay back, pay off, redress, repay, requite, vindicate. Archaic : wreak. Idioms: even the score, get back at, get even with, pay back in kind (or in one's own coin) , settle (or square) accounts, take an eye for an eye. See FORGIVENESS. 5. To become or cause to become stuck or lodged: catch, lodge, stick. See MOVE. 6. To set forth expressly and authoritatively: decree, dictate, impose, lay down, ordain, prescribe. Idioms: call the shots (or tune) , lay it on the line. See OVER. 7. To produce a deep impression of: engrave, etch, grave3, impress, imprint, inscribe, stamp. See MARKS. 8. To place securely in a position or condition: ensconce, establish, install, seat, settle. See PUT IN. 9. To make secure: anchor, catch, fasten, moor, secure. Idioms: make fast. See MOVE. 10. To ascribe (a misdeed or an error, for example) to: affix, assign, blame, fasten, impute, pin on, place. See GIVE. 11. To implant so deeply as to make change nearly impossible: embed, entrench, fasten, infix, ingrain, lodge, root1. See MOVE. 12. To prearrange the outcome of (a contest) unlawfully: tamper. Idioms: stack the deck. See CRIMES. 13. To restore to proper condition or functioning: doctor, fix up, mend, overhaul, patch, repair1, revamp, right. Idioms: set right. See HELP. 14. To cause to be ready, as for use, consumption, or a special purpose: fit1, make, prepare, prime, ready. See PREPARED. 15. To put into correct or conclusive form: arrange, conclude, dispose of, settle. See DO. 16. To render incapable of reproducing sexually: alter, castrate, geld, neuter, spay, sterilize, unsex. See REPRODUCTION, RICH. | | PHRASAL VERB: | fix up To improve in appearance, especially by refurbishing: smarten (up), spruce (up). See BETTER. fix up To restore to proper condition or functioning: doctor, fix, mend, overhaul, patch, repair1, revamp, right. Idioms: set right. See HELP.
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