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Verb

1. {{lb|en|transitive|obsolete}} To [[pierce]]; now generally replaced by [[transfix]].
2. {{lb|en|transitive}} To [[attach]]; to [[affix]]; to hold [[in place]] or at a particular [[time]].
3. {{senseid|en|repair}}{{lb|en|transitive}} To [[mend]], to [[repair]].
4. {{lb|en|ditransitive|informal}} To prepare (food or drink).
5. {{lb|en|transitive}} 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 extortion.<ref>Sutherland, Edwin H. (ed) (1937): The Professional Thief: by a Professional Thief. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. [Reprinted by various publishers in subsequent decades.]</ref>
6. {{lb|en|transitive|US|informal}} To [[surgical]]ly [[render]] an animal, especially a pet, [[infertile]].
7. {{lb|en|transitive|mathematics|semantics}} To [[map]] (a [[point]] or [[subset]]) to [[itself]].
8. {{lb|en|transitive|informal}} To take revenge on, to best; to serve justice on an assumed miscreant.
9. {{senseid|en|photography}}{{lb|en|transitive}} To render (a photographic impression) permanent by treating with such applications as will make it insensitive to the action of light.
10. {{senseid|en|transitive chemistry}}{{lb|en|transitive|chemistry|biology}} To convert into a stable or available form.
11. {{lb|en|intransitive}} To [[become]] [[fixed]]; to [[settle]] or [[remain]] [[permanently]]; to cease from wandering; to rest.
12. {{lb|en|intransitive}} 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.

Noun

1. A [[repair]] or [[corrective]] action.
2. A difficult situation; a [[quandary]] or [[dilemma]]; a [[predicament]].
3. {{senseid|en|injection}}{{lb|en|slang}} A [[single]] [[dose]] of a [[narcotic]] [[drug]], especially when injected.
4. {{senseid|en|prearrangement}} A prearrangement of the outcome of a supposedly competitive process, such as a sporting event, a game, an election, a trial, or a bid.
5. An [[understanding]], [[grasp]] of something.
6. A [[determination]] of [[location]].
7. {{lb|en|aviation}} A non-waypoint terrain feature used to make a determination of location.
8. {{senseid|en|fettlings}} {{lb|en|US}} [[fettling|Fettling]]s (mixture used to line a furnace).

Proper noun

1. {{surname|en}}.

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