Fix

Fixed; solidified.

To make firm, stable, or fast; to set or place permanently; to fasten immovably; to establish; to implant; to secure; to make definite.

To hold steadily; to direct unwaveringly; to fasten, as the eye on an object, the attention on a speaker.

To transfix; to pierce.

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

To put in order; to arrange; to dispose of; to adjust; to set to rights; to set or place in the manner desired or most suitable; hence, to repair; as, to fix the clothes; to fix the furniture of a room.

To line the hearth of (a puddling furnace) with fettling.

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

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.

A position of difficulty or embarassment; predicament; dilemma.

fettling.

influence an event or its outcome by illegal means; "fix a race"

informal terms for a difficult situation; "he got into a terrible fix"; "he made a muddle of his marriage"