Fix
Fix verb - To arrange something in a certain spot or position.
Justify
Justify verb - To be an acceptable reason for.
Mutual synonyms
Common collocations
| life | fix life | justify life |
| relationship | fix relationship | justify relationship |
| time | fix time | justify time |
| way | fix way | justify way |
Both words in one sentence
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Most of what he does to Youji, and his hatred of Tetsuo, is rooted in his desire to prove himself to his father and fix, or at least justify, the state of his own body.
Source: Visual Novel / Sweet Pool - The Eighth Doctor Adventures novel War of the Daleks is a fix fic of "Remembrance of the Daleks", which ends up retconning everything from "Destiny of the Daleks" onwards in order to justify its claim that the destruction of Skaro never happened.
Source: Fix Fic - May occur as a potential Fix Fic to explain the rationale behind an Out of Character moment or in other instances to actually justify canon or justify popular fanon within the established canon.
Source: Pseudocanonical Fic
Cite this Source
Justify and Fix. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 21, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/fix/justify
Fix & Justify. N.p., 2016. Web. 21 Jul. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/fix/justify>.
Justify or Fix. 2016. Accessed July 21, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/fix/justify.
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