Fix
Fix verb - To cause (something) to hold to another.
Usage example: first, you need to fix those pieces of wood together
Separate
Separate verb - To set or force apart.
Common collocations
Both words in one sentence
- To fix this, Princess Leilani was revealed to be a separate character, Tina's sister, in the sequel (perhaps intended to be the green-haired proto-Tina◊ from Wonder Boy).
Source: Video Game / Adventure Island - It was so pathetically bad that Bethesda had to create a separate German patch just to fix the worst of the horrible translation and make the item names comprehensible.
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The opportunity to fix this came with the Grand Conjunction, which, as a side effect, rearranged domains to correspond with roughly similar ecologies and created Islands and Clusters, domains separate from the Core that correspond with each other without seeming too out of place.
Source: Tabletop Game / Ravenloft
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Separate and Fix. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 21, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/fix/separate
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